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Consumer Watchdog Believes Google ‘WiSpy’ Potentially Logged Homeland Security Data

In the long list of legal issues Google is facing at the moment, here’s another one to add to the record: Consumer Watchdog suspects the Mountain View-based company to have picked up unprotected payload data (i.e. Wi-Fi) from the home network of a member of the Department of Homeland Security as well as from houses of members of Congress. Ironically enough, person who has most likely been snooped upon is Rep. Jane Harman, D-CA, chair of the Intelligence Subcommittee of the Homeland Security.

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