LONDON: Britain has become the latest country to open an investigation into whether Google violated communication and privacy laws by mistakenly gathering data over public WiFi networks.
London’s Metropolitan Police said it is looking into complaints that the search engine picked up people’s online activities through unprotected home and business networks while photographing neighbourhoods for its “Street View” mapping feature.
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