Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords 157
wiredmikey writes "Alan Eustace, Google's Senior VP of Engineering & Research, just put up an interesting blog post on how Google will be creating stronger privacy controls. Right at the end is an interesting admission: that after Streetview WiFi Payload data was analyzed by regulators, their investigations revealed that some incredibly private information was harvested in some cases. Eustace noted that 'It's clear from those inspections that while most of the data is fragmentary, in some instances entire emails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords.'"
Re:Don't wait for Google policy. (Score:4, Funny)
Not with SSL.
If you are using their mail servers, they might be able to read your mail.
That's why I use gmail, I might as well go directly to the place where its all going to end up anyway.
Re:Don't wait for Google policy. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't wait for Google policy. (Score:3, Funny)
< googles his root password >
Nope, they don't seem to have my password.
Well, at least they didn't until now... But I feel safer knowing ;-P