{"id":68326,"date":"2013-09-11T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T16:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/court-google-can-face-wiretapping-claims-in-street-view-lawsuits\/68326\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T16:39:05","slug":"court-google-can-face-wiretapping-claims-in-street-view-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/court-google-can-face-wiretapping-claims-in-street-view-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Court: Google can face wiretapping claims in Street View lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maura Dolan<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/la-google-street-view-liable-wiretapping-20130910,0,817289.story\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Times<\/a><br \/>\nSeptember 11, 2013<\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court decided Tuesday that Google Inc. can be held liable for violating a federal wiretap law when it collected personal information from Wi-Fi networks while obtaining photographs for Street View.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said data transmitted over an unencrypted Wi-Fi network were not readily available to the public and therefore could not be accessed under an exemption to the federal Wiretap Act.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was a victory for wireless users who brought class-action lawsuits after their private information was accessed by Google&#8217;s Street View fleets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/la-google-street-view-liable-wiretapping-20130910,0,817289.story\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maura Dolan L.A. Times September 11, 2013 A federal appeals court decided Tuesday that Google Inc. can be held liable for violating a federal wiretap law when it collected personal information from Wi-Fi networks while obtaining photographs for Street View. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said data transmitted over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}