Peter Sayer / InfoWorld:
Google’s Street View Wi-Fi data included passwords, email — The French data protection authority has found passwords and email messages among the Street View Wi-Fi data Google intercepted — Wi-Fi traffic intercepted by Google’s Street View cars included passwords and email …
Financial Times:
Google to hand over intercepted data — Google will begin handing over to European regulators the rogue data it intercepted from private WiFi internet connections within the next two days, in an effort to defuse growing controversy over its latest privacy blunder.
BEIJING — Global technology suppliers face a looming Chinese deadline to reveal the inner workings of computer encryption and other security products in a move the United States and Europe say is protectionist. Suppliers must comply with the rules that take effect Saturday or risk being shut out
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Joelle Tessler / Associated Press:
New data: 40 percent in US lack home broadband — Buzz up! — WASHINGTON – Roughly 40 percent of Americans do not have high-speed Internet access at home, according to new Commerce Department figures that underscore the challenges facing policymakers who are trying to bring affordable broadband connections to everyone.