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Gov’t Report: Google Privacy Violations Weren’t A Mistake

By National Confidential | 28 April 2012 11:53 pm EST Updated 28 April 2012 11:55 pm EST
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Google HeadquartersA bombshell report set to be released by the government shows that massive privacy violations at Google weren’t isolated mistakes as the company claimed.

The New York Times reports that a Federal Communications Commission report into Google’s Street View program that resulted in fines for the search giant also reveals that “Google’s harvesting of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive personal information from unsuspecting households in the United States and around the world was neither a mistake nor the work of a rogue engineer.”

The Times also reports that Google engineers were told by managers that they could access the illicitly obtained data for use in Google sponsored projects.

The FCC found that Google did not break any laws, but did obstruct the investigation and had to pay the agency a fine.

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