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Sinister Truth About Google Spies: Street View Cars Stole Information from British Households But Executives 'Covered it Up' For Years

Tuesday, 29 May 2012 09:51

'Google is facing an inquiry into claims that it deliberately harvested information from millions of UK home computers.

The Information Commissioner data protection watchdog is expected to examine the work of the internet giant’s Street View cars. They downloaded emails, text messages, photographs and documents from wi-fi networks as they photographed virtually every British road.

It is two years since Google first admitted stealing fragments of personal data, but claimed it was a ‘mistake’.'

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