Google Wi-Fi Spy Lawsuits Head to Silicon Valley - By David Kravets<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/author/davidkravets/> [image: Email Author] <david_krav...@wired.com> - August 20, 2010 | - 2:16 pm | - Categories: Cybersecurity<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/category/cybersecurity/>, privacy <http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/category/privacy/> -
<http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/08/Screen-shot-2010-08-20-at-11.02.58-AM.png>Whether Google is liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers across the United States is to be aired out in a Silicon Valley federal court. Eight proposed class actions from across the country that seek unspecified monetary damages from Google were consolidated this week and transferred to U.S. District Judge James Ware<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ware_%28judge%29>in San Jose, California. Another five cases are likely to join. The lawsuits allege that Google violated federal and state privacy laws in collecting fragments of data from unencrypted wireless networks as its fleet of camera-equipped cars moseyed through neighborhoods snapping pictures for its Street View program. Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/google-spy-lawsuits/#ixzz0xHmTDYpk -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
