US regulators scold Google for taking e-mails
SAN FRANCISCO – The Federal Trade Commission is scolding Google, but not taking any further action against the company for collecting personal information transmitted over unsecured wireless networks.In a Wednesday letter, the regulatory agency chastised Google Inc. for allowing people's e-mails, passwords and Web surfing activity to be scooped up for several years before management realized it. It took an inquiry from German regulators earlier this year for Google to realize it had been inadvertently pulling in information off of wireless networks as its cars took photos of neighborhoods around the world for its "Street View" mapping service.
The FTC says it closed its investigation because it's satisfied with a series of measures that Google announced last week in an effort to improve its internal privacy controls.
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