Google has decided to stop its Street View cars from sniffing wireless networking data after an embarrassing privacy gaffe. The company revealed Friday that Street View vehicles had been sniffing the ...

So says the CEO of Skyhook Wireless. Every Wi-Fi network in every home and business broadcasts both public data -- such as its network name and unique machine identifier -- and "payload data," or ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Google's use of Street View vehicles to collect unencrypted WiFi data jeopardized constitutional privacy protections, class counsel told the 9th Circuit. A three-judge panel heard ...

Lawyers suing Google claimed Thursday they have discovered evidence in a patent application that Google deliberately programmed its Street View cars to collect private data from open Wi-Fi networks, ...