“The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Google Inc., leaving the company to face lawsuits accusing it of violating a federal wiretapping law by secretly collecting personal data while developing its Street View maps,” Greg Stohr reports for Bloomberg.
“Google, the world’s most-used Internet search engine, is accused in class-action lawsuits of gathering e-mails, user names and passwords while using a fleet of camera-equipped vehicles that drove around the country to collect images for Street View,” Stohr reports. “Google has apologized for collecting the personal information, while saying it didn’t violate the law. ”
Stohr reports, “The Mountain View, California-based company has faced government investigations around the world over its data-gathering practices.”
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