Supreme Court Rejects Google's Appeal
Lawsuits allege it violated federal wiretapping law
The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected an appeal by Google, "leaving the company to face lawsuits accusing it of violating a federal wiretapping law by secretly collecting personal data while developing its Street View maps," according to Businessweek.
The court upheld a previous ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that protection under the U.S. Wiretap Act applies to information found on unencrypted in-home WiFi Networks. The class-action suit accuses Google "of gathering emails, user names and passwords while using a fleet of camera-equipped vehicles that drove around the country to collect images for Street View," Businessweek reported.
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