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Google Inc will pay $7 million to 38 states and the District of Columbia to settle an investigation into a controversial incident in which its Street View mapping cars collected passwords and other personal data from home wireless networks between 2008 and 2010.
Since EFF has recently condemned T-mobile, I thought it would be time to condemn Google. This provides greater context to Google's efforts to collect data on wifi networks. Such a program would allow to create a database of ip addresses each wifi network uses, and allows for a greater degree of mass surveillance.