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Originally Posted by Homeslice
How the hell can cameras capture email and passwords??   ......
Collecting the WiFi data was unrelated to the Google Maps project, and was done so Google could amass data on WiFi hotspots that could help provide location-based services.
Google said collecting the additional data was a mistake resulting from a piece of computer code from an experimental project that was accidentally included.
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic. Editing by Robert MacMillan) |
Reading the last paragraphs of the article (I deleted all the other stuff from your post in my quote), I'd say they were gathering WiFi info and managed to capture the e-mails, websites and passwords as people were typing stuff in on unsecure connections.