Google Data Collection Details Requested by U.S. Lawmaker
A U.S. House committee chairman asked the Federal Trade Commission to provide details of Google Inc.’s collection of data from unsecured wireless networks.
The FTC on Oct. 27 announced it was ending its investigation into possible privacy violations by Google in its gathering of data for its Street View mapping project.
“I am sending a request to the FTC for a staff briefing on a number of privacy investigations including Google Street View,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns said in an e-mailed statement.
Yesterday, the National Legal and Policy Center, a group that describes itself as an ethics watchdog, sent a letter to Towns, a New York Democrat, and Representative Darrell Issa of California, the panel’s ranking Republican, requesting an investigation by the committee into the Google data collection.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jeff Bliss in Washington at jbliss@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Mark Silva in Washington at msilva34@bloomberg.net
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