Congressmen Question Google on Wi-Fi
Today, Congressmen Joe Barton (R-TX), Edward Markey (D-MA), and Henry Waxman (D-CA)wrote to Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt seeking answers to the company’s collection of private information over Wi-Fi networks.“We are concerned that Google did not disclose until long after the fact that consumers’ Internet use was being recorded, analyzed and perhaps profiled. In addition, we are concerned about the completeness and accuracy of Google’s public explanations about this matter,” wrote the lawmakers. “For example, on April 27, 2010, a Google blog post contained inaccurate information about whether payload data was collected. However, a Google executive on May 14,... More
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