Maryland To Receive $130,000 From Google Settlement
Maryland is one of 37 states and Washington, D.C., that will share a $7 million settlement with Google Inc. over allegations that the online search giant collected unauthorized data from consumers when putting together its Street View mapping service.
Maryland will receive $130,388 of the settlement announced Tuesday.
Attorney generals from across the U.S., including Maryland’s Douglas F. Gansler, claimed that when Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) used antenna and open source software to take the photos for its Street View service between 2008 and 2010, it also collected data from nearby unsecured wireless networks without consumers’ permission. That includes items like email, text messages, computer passwords and Web-browsing histories. More
Know what? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the gov and Google are business partners, and just bought all that info from Google, no, stole and kept, that info. Bet me. Now the state has YOUR INFORMATION and is happy with their check. I smell a lawsuit!
So why does the state benefit and the consumer gets nothing?
ReplyDeletethe governor will have a nice new car soon
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ReplyDeleteYou beat me to it. I am wondering the same thing.
12:00 Welcome to the Soviet States of China, comrade.
ReplyDeleteWho exactly is getting the money?
ReplyDeleteCertainly not the individuals whose information was stolen, 252!
ReplyDeleteThis is BS. The governments out to get Google. Google lets people know when law enforcement subpoenas someone's google searches.
ReplyDeleteKnow what? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the gov and Google are business partners, and just bought all that info from Google, no, stole and kept, that info. Bet me. Now the state has YOUR INFORMATION and is happy with their check. I smell a lawsuit!
ReplyDeleteIf we divide it evenly all citizen shall receive 8 cents. How much time and money was spent on the recovery of this ransom?
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