Google’s wardriving days are over, says Canadian privacy commissioner

When Google’s Street View cars glide through your neighborhood next, you can leave the WPA2 encryption off — Canada says that the company has “discontinued” the practice of snooping on unsecured WiFi networks with its mapping vehicles, and “has no plans to resume it.” That’s one of several findings in a report by Canada’s privacy commissioner today, which also claims that the controversial data collection feature was the work of a single Google engineer, and that Google intends to use smartphones to pinpoint WiFi networks from now on. Naturally, the latter caused the commissioner concern that Android phones might capture the same data as the cars. Perhaps you’d best keep those shields up after all. Google’s wardriving days are over, says Canadian privacy commissioner originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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