Judge OKs Wiretap Lawsuit For Google WiFi Sniffing

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 01, 2011 @08:30AM

An anonymous reader writes "Last year Google found itself in hot water after admitting to accidentally collecting payload data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks. Their admission led to a number of investigations and complaints around the globe, a U.S. District Court Judge has now given the green light for a class-action lawsuit to proceed which alleges Google violated federal wiretapping laws. "Judge James Ware drew a distinction in yesterday's ruling between merely accessing an open WiFi network and actually sniffing the individual packets on that network. In the first case, one is only jumping onto a network to send and receive's one own communications; in the second case, one is looking into someone else's communications, and doing so in a way that requires nontrivial technical ability or software.""
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