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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: dpareja on March 12, 2013, 04:42:01 pm

Title: And the price of your personal information is...
Post by: dpareja on March 12, 2013, 04:42:01 pm
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/12/tech-google-wifi-fine.html (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/12/tech-google-wifi-fine.html)

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Google will pay a $7 million fine to settle a multistate investigation into the internet search leader's interception of emails, passwords and other sensitive information sent several years ago over unprotected wireless neighborhoods scattered throughout the world.

So, yeah, somehow I don't think a $7,000,000 fine makes up for this, even if the networks were unsecured.