Google pays $13 million to settle Street View scandal in which its cars and trucks scooped up emails, passwords and other personal information from tens of millions of people all over the world

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-21/google-finds-cheap-way-out-of-multibillion-dollar-wi-spy-suit?srnd=premium

Google is poised to pay a modest $13 million to end a 2010 privacy lawsuit that was once called the biggest U.S. wiretap case ever and threatened the internet giant with billions of dollars in damages.

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The settlement would close the books on a scandal that was touched off by trucks used by Google for its Street View mapping project. Cars and trucks scooped up emails, passwords and other personal information from unencrypted household Wi-Fi networks belonging to tens of millions of people all over the world.

The debacle became known as “Wi-Spy,” and it caused almost as much of an uproar as Facebooks’s more recent Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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