Google released its transparency report of July ’11 to December ’11, stating  a considerably increasing number of user data requests from Indian government – 2,207 user data request – 66% of them have been compiled. 3,427 users/accounts were specified in the total data requests. During January ’11 and June ’11,... 

In 2006, a Google Engineer working on an “experimental Wi-Fi project” wrote a piece of code for collecting “all categories of public broadcast WiFi data”, basically all information being downloaded/uploaded on a open/non-password-protected WiFi network. That code – by mistake – was added into the software Google’s...