The FTC is dropping its investigation into Google Street View’s unintentional Wi-Fi snooping. Officials at the the FTC said that Google’s tougher internal privacy rules combined with a promise from Google were enough to drop complaints. Google convinced the FTC that it hadn’t and wouldn’t use any of the sensitive data it had scraped while driving Street View cars, according to a statement.
The FTC’s Consumer Protection Bureau director, David Vladek, stipulated only that Google should be more active in communicating what it does about privacy. Google had said it was requiring privacy plans for all its projects and was appointing an overseer for both of its main groups to guarantee privacy was a common concern.
Google is still under scrutiny from South Korea and other countries.
