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Source: ZDNet UK - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Google intercepted passwords and email content while it was collecting unsecured Wi-Fi data from households, the French privacy watchdog has found.
The search and advertising company admitted in May that its Street View cars had harvested information sent over Wi-Fi networks.
The company said it had collected "payload" data, but said it could not specify exactly what information it held, as its cars had gathered the data unintentionally. Data protection authorities in a number of countries are investigating the incident, including France's Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL).
The French watchdog said on Thursday that its early investigation had found evidence of Google storing passwords and fragments of email picked up in the Street View sweep.
"Google recorded mailbox passwords, without people's knowledge," CNIL said in a statement. "Google saved extracts of the contents of electronic messages."
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