Notes from the Electronic Cottage 6/24/10

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Google Street View can be a very handy service. It shows us images that allow us to see what locations actually look like from street level. It turns out, however, that images is not all that Googlemobiles have been collecting. Seems they’ve also been sniffing private Wi-Fi networks in homes and businesses in 30 countries, including the U.S., and officials around the world are not amused.