Yawn… this happened back in April, when Google, in a blog post, admitted that they accidentally collected personal details, including full email addresses and even health records from unsecured wi-fi connections of home users.
NOW, Canadian authorities are saying that the company has breached Canadian privacy laws and want all such information deleted from their system by 1st February, 2011. At that point, the commissioner’s office will consider this issue resolved.
While it’s dumb to leave a wi-fi connection unsecured, though there are people who have left the “door” open unknowingly, it’s still wrong of Google to collect such information and to have kept them until now even though the company has already known about it in April. How many months does the company require to delete these information from their system?