The chief executive of Google admitted to major privacy mistakes today as regulators prepare to launch probes into the company for recording personal communications sent over the unsecured wireless networks in people’s homes.
Eric Schmidt said that the company had not authorised the activity of its Street View cars, which have been collecting snippets of people’s online activities, broadcast over unprotected home and business wi-fi networks.
He said that the company should not face prosecution over the incident, saying that nobody had been harmed by the gathering of people’s information. “No harm, no foul,” he said.
Full story: Eric Schmidt says Google should not be prosecuted for wi-fi records – Times Online