News Google Escapes Its Biggest Privacy Scandal Virtually Unscathed

[Admin]

Bloomberg reported that Google has settled for $13 million with the people whose data the company stole with its Street View cars between 2008-2010.

Google Escapes Its Biggest Privacy Scandal Virtually Unscathed : Read more

 

[King_V]

I remember when their motto used to be: "Don't be evil"

Ah, nostalgia.

 

[DookieDraws]

I always feel like somebodys watching meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! And I have no privacy!

 

[ingtar33]

I remember when their motto used to be: "Don't be evil"

Ah, nostalgia.

yeah, the dropped that motto in 2017

 

[ssdpro]

So basically... nothing happened here.

 

[cryoburner]

No one else who may have had their data stolen by Google will receive any money. According to the class-action lawyers, it would be too difficult to prove what data was stolen and when, after so many years.

Some random lawyers get paid. That's all that matters. : D

 

[bloodroses]

$13 million? Bah, that's a drop in the bucket/slap on the wrist and Google will more than likely make more money with that data gathered than what they're sued for. It's like when they sue the casinos up around me for not paying out enough. They make more money than what the fines are.

 

[alextheblue]

Google at the time said that the data was collected accidentally when it was trying to collect Wi-Fi names and MAC addresses. Wi-Fi names and MAC address are typically collected for tracking users in order to serve them more targeted advertising. Google claimed that it didn’t use any of the data for business purposes.

So they claim they only intended to collect network names and MAC addresses, for the purposes of their business (advertising). But not for business purposes.

I am impressed anyone thought that made sense. Equally impressed they want us to believe they ACCIDENTALLY collected a crapload of other data. Google constantly does crap like this and then says "oops it was a mistake lulz" and then they reimplement it in a couple years when everyone has forgotten. "We deleted some "private" Docs we scanned that had wrongthink in them, oops it was a mistake." Waiting for that one to come back.