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• AFP drops charges on Google Street View blunder

  The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has dropped charges against Google related to the collection of Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars, noting the data collection may have been "inadvertent" rather than a deliberate privacy breach.

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  Google "mortified" by amount of personal info in Street View data

  Five months after "mistakenly" collecting "fragmented" data from home networks via its Street View cars, Google has confirmed that private emails, Web addresses as well as passwords were among the data captured.

• Spain moves to fine Google over Street View

  The Spanish Data Protection Agency is preparing to fine Google over infractions against local data protection laws when it collected Wi-Fi data as part of its Street View service, it said in a statement on Monday.

• Google Street View Funny ... or Disaster?

  Embarrassing moments, unexplained car crashes, and crazy stunts. You never know what the Google Street View team is going to capture on camera next. If only an 'Undoo Button' was in play for those captured here

• South Korean police raid Google's office over Street View

  South Korean police on Tuesday raided Google offices in an investigation of the company's Street View mapping project, the latest instance of a country scrutinizing the company's collection of Wi-Fi data

• Google will resume Street View photography in four countries

  Google said on Friday it will resume collection of Street View images in four countries following the removal of Wi-Fi data collection equipment that thrust the company into the spotlight of data protection officials worldwide.

• German regulators welcome street panorama privacy law draft

  German privacy regulators have welcomed a proposal to extend laws protecting Germans' right to privacy to cover use of their own image and that of their homes in online street panoramas, the Hamburg privacy regulator said Monday.

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  Google Street View Wi-Fi data included passwords and e-mail

  Wi-Fi traffic intercepted by Google's Street View cars included passwords and e-mail, according to the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL).

• Missouri AG looks into Google Wi-Fi mess

  Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is asking Google to answer questions about how the company's widespread wireless-network sniffing activities may have affected local residents.

• Google saves, secures Wi-Fi snooping data

  Google said that it has secured the data it obtained through its Street View Wi-Fi snooping, but will fight a class-action lawsuit's demand that it turn over more information, court documents showed today.

• Google Street View Privacy Breach: Lawmakers Get Mad

  Want a metric for the speed of US government? Just look at the response to Google Street View cars' accidental collection of private data.

• Germany launches criminal investigation of Google

  German prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation over whether Google broke data protection regulations when it collected fragments of Wi-Fi data while shooting imagery for its mapping application.

• Google hit with class-action lawsuit over Wi-Fi snooping

  Google's secret Wi-Fi sniffing has prompted a class-action lawsuit that could force the company to pay up to $10,000 for each time it snatched data from unprotected hotspots, court documents show.

• Google Street View faces investigation in France and Italy

  Data protection authorities in France and Italy have joined Germany in investigating Google's Street View service, following the company's admission last week that its camera cars collected Wi-Fi traffic as well as photos.

• Google stops sniffing Wi-Fi data after privacy gaffe

  Google has decided to stop its Street View cars from sniffing wireless networking data after an embarrassing privacy gaffe.