No “significant” personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection office.

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Google cleared of wi-fi snooping

The long awaited real-time-strategy game StarCraft II has gone on sale, 12 years after the popular first edition was released.

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Long wait for StarCraft II ends

Let this be a very strong reminder to password-protect your WiFi networks… but first, some backstory. In 2006, a Google engineer “working on an experimental WiFi project” wrote a piece of code for collecting “all categories of public broadcast WiFi data” — basically, all information (known as “payload”) downloaded and uploaded from an open / non-password protected network

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Street View cars mistakenly nabs personal data over open WiFi networks, says Google

Let’s be honest, who here is actually surprised that underpaid and overworked data workers would sell on our details for a few extra quid? Given the number of uninvited calls to our unlisted phone numbers, we know for a fact that somebody has been dishing our personal contacts to those Nigerian princes and caring loan consolidators, so it’s no shock to learn that T-Mobile employees have been fingered for committing the deed and are now facing prosecution. We’re told that inappropriately leaked information made its way into the hands of brokers, who then “cold-called the customers as their contracts were due to expire” without T-Mob’s knowledge.

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UK T-Mobile customer data sold to cold callers, responsible staff to be prosecuted

…repent at leisure, would-be Labour MPs are told

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Twitter in haste…

A leading adviser to the NHS calls for more surveillance of personal data at a Labour conference fringe meeting.

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Surveillance state ‘a good thing’

How to secure your personal data if the worst happens

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