Google Wi-Fi Incident Under More Scrutiny

Canada's privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Google's disclosure that it mistakenly collected data from unsecured home Wi-Fi networks.

"We are very concerned about the privacy implications stemming from Google's confirmation that it had been capturing Wi-Fi data in neighborhoods across Canada and around the world over the past several years," said Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart. Stoddard said that her office will be examining whether the incident violated Canada's private sector privacy law, known as the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. She has urged Google to retain the Wi-Fi data it collected in Canada. "We have a number of questions about how this collection could have happened and about the impact on people's privacy," she said.