Google Loses Bid for Wiretap Suit Appeals Court Rehearing
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Google Inc. lost a bid for a rehearing before a federal appeals court that said the operator of the world’s most-used search engine must face claims that its Street View program violated federal wiretap law.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco today amended and affirmed its ruling in September that the Wi-Fi network data collected by the company is covered by the privacy protections of the U.S. Wiretap Act. The court also denied Google’s request for review of the ruling by a larger panel of judges.