Google wants the Supreme Court to reverse a decision concluding that the media giant could be held liable for hijacking data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers via its Street View cars. The legal flap ...

Google has decided to stop its Street View cars from sniffing wireless networking data after an embarrassing privacy gaffe. The company revealed Friday that Street View vehicles had been sniffing the ...

So says the CEO of Skyhook Wireless. Every Wi-Fi network in every home and business broadcasts both public data -- such as its network name and unique machine identifier -- and "payload data," or ...

Cities are happening places, every neighborhood a different personality, each street a new experience. And around every corner, a different atmospheric mixture of pollutants to clog your lungs, cloud ...

The question of whether Google is liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open WiFi routers across the United States is boiling down to the definition of a “radio communication.” That ...

Federal regulators on Wednesday closed their investigation into Google's collection of Wi-Fi traffic, without imposing any sanctions on the company. Google discovered earlier this year, after ...

Lawyers suing Google claimed Thursday they have discovered evidence in a patent application that Google deliberately programmed its Street View cars to collect private data from open Wi-Fi networks, ...

Nearly three weeks after admitting that it had sniffed sensitive data from open wireless networks around the world, Google is now facing at least seven U.S. class-action lawsuits over its practice.

In older American cities like New York and Boston, there can be as many gas leaks as there are miles of road. How do we know? Because Google drove those city streets – and mapped every leak. In some ...