entrust it to the FCC to stick it to nefarious incarnate overreaching : USA Today reports the FCC just slam Google with a $ 25,000 fine obstructing an investigation intocollecting individual informationabout American Wi - Fi networks . That ’ll stop ’em !
https://gizmodo.com/google-sued-over-street-view-wi-fi-issue-5543582
Given that Google make $ 2.89 billion last quarter alone , it ’s hard to trust the ship’s company will even notice the fine , allow alone be deterred by it . Google can also appeal the minuscule fine . And this was n’t any minor infraction :
During the outgrowth of capturing figure of speech , Google ’s fleet of WiFi - ready Street View vehicles enamour Web - surfing datum , passwords and e - mail . Two age ago , Google admitted that its cars had capture the datum .
Creepy material . And as laughable as this is , we ought n’t be laugh . Companies will get away with whatever they can give to , and with the FCC either unable or unwilling to slap a giant like Google any heavily than a pathetic 25 grand ’s worth , companies will get aside with a lot . [ USA TodayviaFark ]
Update : The premature version of this post posit that Google was fined for the accumulation of the data , when it fact the fine was have for “ [ impeding ] the Federal Communications Commission ’s investigating . ”
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