Oopsie! Google Accidentally Harvested WiFi Data

Google today revealed in a blog post that the company's street view cars had been accidentally collecting data from open WiFi networks.

Google today admitted that, in the years that it's been photographing the streets of the world for Google Maps, it has also been unintentionally collecting payload data from open WiFi networks and public hotspots. The revelation came after the German Data Protection Authority asked to audit the WiFi data collected by the Google Street View cars.