Google StreetView WiFi Sweeps Broke UK Data Law, Privacy Regulator Says

Google violated Britain's data-protection law when its Street View mapping unit inadvertently gathered personal e-mails and passwords from unsecured wireless networks, said the UK's the Information Commissioner's Office.

"Google U.K. will be subject to an audit and must sign an undertaking to ensure data protection breaches do not occur again or they will face enforcement action," Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said. The watchdog asked Google to make changes to its policies to avoid an enforcement action.