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Thread ID: 125289 2012-06-18 23:09:00 How to really Punish Rich companies like google 1101 (13337) PC World Chat
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1282618 2012-06-18 23:09:00 How do you really Punish Rich companies like google....

fine them $25,000

Joe Average would be sent to jail for this sort of thing, & the cover up & lies that followed,
www.theregister.co.uk

"The Information Commissioner's Office has reopened its investigation of Google's controversial Street View technology, after its data-collecting cars collected payload data including emails and passwords from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks."
1101 (13337)
1282619 2012-06-18 23:32:00 A $25,000 fine to Google Would be effective as my having to pay a $12 parking fine. Bobh (5192)
1282620 2012-06-18 23:39:00 By cripes Bob, I think you are right. Cicero (40)
1282621 2012-06-19 01:19:00 The regulator's head of enforcement Steve Eckersley has sent an aggressive letter to senior Google veep Alan Eustace demanding "prompt" answers to seven questions to explain why Street View was able to slurp such data.Might it be because people are too stupid to secure their networks. mikebartnz (21)
1282622 2012-06-19 01:45:00 Might it be because people are too stupid to secure their networks.
Exactly!

I saw this:

data including emails and passwords from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
Explains it all right there!
Chilling_Silence (9)
1282623 2012-06-19 02:02:00 A $25,000 fine to Google Would be effective as my having to pay a $12 parking fine.
Probably even less so
Nick G (16709)
1282624 2012-06-19 02:41:00 By cripes Nick, I think you might be right too. Cicero (40)
1282625 2012-06-19 02:43:00 There is no law that says you have to secure your network. Is there one yet that say you have broken and entered if you browse someones network without their knowledge?? Gobe1 (6290)
1282626 2012-06-19 05:39:00 Question I would be asking them, is why they even developed the software to do this. All try are ment to be doing is taking photos isnt it? What is collecting this data going to do for them. There is a bigger picture missing here I suspect.

And to take data, emails and passwords, thats just straight mass theft. 25k isnt even a drop in the bucket to them. 2.5 mill per offence would be more fitting.
Iantech (16386)
1282627 2012-06-19 05:51:00 That could get me a nice PC. ChazTheGeek (16619)
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