{"id":12923,"date":"2010-06-08T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-08T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:24:00","slug":"google-denies-using-private-data-for-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/12923-google-denies-using-private-data-for-mapping.html","title":{"rendered":"Google denies using private data for mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Google acknowledged it had mistakenly collected data over public Wi-Fi networks in more than 30 countries. Authorities fear the collection may violate privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal held a news conference Monday urging the search engine company to reveal whether it illegally collected data from state personal and business wireless computer networks for the Street View feature.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to The Associated Press, a Google spokeswoman said its Wi-Fi collection and Street View feature, which provides pictures of neighborhoods, are unrelated.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Germany and Australia already have launched their own investigations into the matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?239167-Google-denies-using-private-data-for-mapping-service\"><strong>Google using private data<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google representatives say they&#039;re working with authorities to address privacy concerns over its mapping service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}