Google recently found themselves in hot water after it was found that their Street View vehicles were accidentally collecting snippets of Wi-Fi traffic from unsecured hotspots. Google’s now facing lawsuits and international pressure from privacy regulators, who can’t seem to make up their mind whether Google should delete the data to protect privacy — or it should be saved for use in criminal charges against Google. Google’s now in trouble for not handing the data over to privacy regulators:

In Australia, Stephen Conroy, the politician behind Australia’s likely futile attempts to censor the Internet, is accusing Google of lying and of collecting the data on purpose. Google says while collecting public hotspot data (SSID, router MAC addresses), a bit of old code managed to collect 600 gigabytes of fragmentary data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in 33 countries and Hong Kong.

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