UK MPs question Google over Street View data breaches

UK MPs question Google over Street View data breachesGoogle Street View car in Amsterdam Google grabbed wi-fi data to help with location-based servicesMPs have accused Google of deliberately collecting wi-fi data for commercial gain.It is another twist to events kicked off by the search giant collecting of millions of pieces of sensitive information via its Street View cars.Discovery of the data triggered investigations around the globe.Google has always maintained that the data was collected in error because of code being mistakenly included in the Street View software.The code was created by a Google engineer as part of a wider project to map wi-fi hotspots but should never have found its way into Street View cars, the search giant said.Google's head of PR told the BBC's Today programme this week that there was code incorporated into Street View which was intended to map wi-fi hotspots in order to improve Google's location-based services.

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