KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Google is under fire from federal investigators after the search engine giant admitted that they had gathered a mountain of personal information from unsecured wireless networks while gathering pictures for their massive map database.
According to the FCC report released last week, from 2008 to 2010, Google intentionally gathered the data, and several employees within Google knew about it for years.
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After first denying the allegations, Google later admitted that their Street View vehicles, which travels streets taking ground-view pictures of streets for Google Maps, had gathered personal data, and promised not to do it again.
Experts advise people with WiFi connections to encrypt their networks and take other steps to safeguard personal information.
Google was fined $25,000 by the FCC for impeding their investigation, but the federal agency says that Google did not technically violate any laws.
