Europe's War on Google Means More Privacy for Everyone
Forbes, September 14, 2011
By Kashmir Hill
Europe is much more hung up on privacy than we are in the U.S. European countries' discomfort with Google Street View led to various investigations into the program — uncovering the fact that the cars had sucked up Wi-Fi data, emails and passwords while they were mapping streets and Wi-Fi accounts. Europe's push leads to privacy ripples in the U.S.
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