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Updated June 9, 2010: As we three weeks ago announced that we had mistakenly included code in our software that collects samples of payload data from WiFi networks, nasa tv ustream we wrote that we would ask a third party to review the software nasa tv ustream to find out how it worked and what data it collected. nasa tv ustream This study, nasa tv ustream conducted by security consultancy firm Stroz Friedberg, is now completed and a report has today been sent to the relevant data protection authorities. In short, the report confirms that Google actually collected and stored payload data from unencrypted WiFi networks, but not from encrypted networks. You can read the report here. We continue to work with the relevant authorities and are available to answer questions and handle problems. Update 17 May 2010:
Friday, May 14 asked the Irish Data Protection Authorities us to delete the payload data, we had mistakenly collected in Ireland. We can confirm that all data that has been identified as being from Ireland was deleted over the weekend in the presence of an impartial third party. We turn now to data protection authorities in the other countries concerned to find out how we can quickly nasa tv ustream get deleted the remaining data.
Nine days ago asked the data protection authorities in Hamburg (Germany) to be allowed to review the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products such. Google Maps for mobile that allows nasa tv ustream users to find local restaurants and get directions. This request led us to undertake nasa tv ustream a review of all the data we had collected, and during this review, we discovered nasa tv ustream that a message in a blog post dated April 27 was wrong. In the blog post and a technical note, the same day sent to data protection authorities, we wrote that Google indeed collect publicly broadcast SSID information (WiFi's network name) and MAC addresses (the unique number assigned to a device, eg. a WiFi router) using Street View cars, but we do not collect payload data (information sent over the network). However, it is now clear that we mistakenly collected samples of payload data from open (ie non-password-protected) WiFi networks, even though nasa tv ustream we never used such data in any Google product. However, we typically only collected fragments of payload data, partly because our cars are in constant motion, partly because a user would have to be on the network at the moment the car passes by, and finally because the cars built WiFi equipment automatically nasa tv ustream changes channels about . five times per second. In addition, we collected data that was sent over secure, password protected WiFi network. So how could this happen? The answer is simple: by mistake. In 2006 wrote an engineer who worked on a WiFi pilot project, a piece of code that collected all kinds of publicly broadcast WiFi data. As our mobile team a year later started a project with the collection of basic WiFi network data like SSID information and MAC addresses using Google's Street View cars, they included the code in their software, although project managers do not want - and had not no intention to use - payload data. As soon as we became aware of this problem, we stopped our Street View cars and isolated these data on our network, which we then cut off so that it was no longer available. We want to delete this data as soon as possible and cater at present to the authorities of the countries concerned to find out how this can happen quickly. Maintaining people's trust is of paramount importance to us, and we have simply failed in this case. Therefore, we will: Have a third party to review the software nasa tv ustream to find out how it worked and what data it collected, and confirm that we have deleted the data appropriately Internally reviewing our procedures to ensure that our control measures are adequate to prevent similar problems in future.
As a result of the problems we have also decided that it is best to stopping to collect network data using Street View cars. This incident nasa tv ustream underlines how easily accessible, open, non-password protected WiFi networks are today. Earlier this year, we encrypted Gmail for all our users, and from next week we can offer our customers an encrypted version of Google Search. Users can even check whether other services are encrypted by to see if the URL begins with "https" and not just "http". Browsers usually show a lock icon when the connection is secure. nasa tv ustream You can find more information about how to pa