翻头条 - Police investigate Google over Street View data

floodp

联邦警察启动了一项针对谷歌及其某些员工在利用街景服务拍摄照片时收集私人信息行为的调查。互联网巨头上个月被揭露，它的街景汽车在包括澳大利亚在内的一些国家拍摄照片时曾从个人Wi-Fi网络收集数据。联邦大律师Robert McClelland今天透露说他已经将此事告知澳大利亚联邦警察。

Mr McClelland说，“我注意到一些公众发出的抱怨声，这些可以理解的声音针对的是已经报道出来的指控谷歌员工在穿梭于街道时获得信息的做法而发出的。周五，大律师处将这些指控和报道通告了澳大利亚警察。”

谷歌上个月承认它在驾车通过房屋时错误地从未加密的Wi-Fi网络收集了一些零星的数据。工程与研究部主管Alan Eustace说汽车原本只能收集Wi-Fi网络名称和运行该网络的设备ID号。然而，他说汽车同时也收集了一些从未加密网络上传输的信息的“样本”。

Mr McClelland今天说这些数据的收集可能违反了电信拦截法案，“该法案阻止人们访问经过授权的用途以外的电讯信息。”

谷歌正在面对它为何收集及如何删除已经曝光的数据等棘手的问题。这一丑闻促使谷歌共同创始人Sergey Brin承认这是个错误。“我们搞砸了，我不打算找任何借口。”他在五月下旬为软件开发者举行的一个会议上如此说到。

在澳大利亚，这一事件吸引了包括Electronic Frontiers Australia，the Australian Privacy Foundation组织以及政客们的批评。和Mr McClelland意见相同的通讯部长Stephen Conroy上个月说，谷歌要为这个有史以来最大的私人信息泄露事件负责。Conroy参议员和谷歌公司对政府计划实施的互联网过滤审查制度的意见不一，谷歌公司对这一制度颇有微词。

谷歌公司发言人今天告诉媒体，“这是一个错误，我们会解答官方提出的任何问题。”

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FEDERAL police have launched an investigation into Google and some of its employees for collecting private information while taking photographs for the Street View service.

It was revealed last month the web giant's Street View cars had collected data from personal Wi-Fi networks while taking photographs in countries including Australia.

Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland today revealed he had referred the matter to the Australian Federal Police.

"I note there has been some complaints voiced, and understandably voiced, by the public in respect to practices that have been reported involving allegations that some information may have been obtained by staff of Google travelling around streets," Mr McClelland said.
"On Friday the Attorney-General's Department did refer those allegations and those reports to the Australian Federal Police."

Google last month admitted it had "mistakenly" collected fragments of data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks as its Street View cars drove past houses.

Engineering and research executive Alan Eustace said the cars were only meant to collect the name of the Wi-Fi network and the ID of the device running it.

However he said the cars had also collected "samples" of information being sent over networks that were left unsecured.

Mr McClelland today said the data collection may have in breach of the Telecommunications Interceptions Act, "which prevents people accessing electronic communications other than for authorised purposes".

Google has been facing tough questions about why it was gathering the data and how it would delete it since the collection was exposed.

The scandal even prompted an admission of error from Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

"We screwed up... I'm not going to make any excuses about it," he said at a conference for software developers in late May.

In Australia the incident has attracted criticism from organisations including Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Australian Privacy Foundation, as well as politicians.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, who stood alongside Mr McClelland today, last month said Google was responsible for the "single greatest breach in the history of privacy".

Google and Senator Conroy are already at odds over the Government's planned internet filter, which the web company says amounts to censorship.

A spokesperson for Google today told news.com.au: "This was a mistake. We are talking to the appropriate authorities to answer any questions they have."

floodp

第一次翻译新闻，感觉很不容易啊。
请多多指点。

bulaohu

翻得很好啊，谢谢

floodp

平常说话没觉得，翻新闻才发现，英文和中文的语序差别真大啊。

astina

是这样的，我常瞎翻:)