At a time when privacy fears are at an all time high, mostly thanks to changes instituted by Facebook, Google has revealed that they have been collecting more information than they said they were. While Google has always asserted that their Street View cars for Google Maps only picked up SSID and MAC information it drove past, that is apparently incorrect.
At the behest of the German government, Google examined its methods and discovered that it was picking up data from non-password-protected networks, though they claim that their moving fleet of cars only picked up fragments of data. Still, Google has apologized and halted the cars until it figures out how to correct the problem.
Source: PC World
