Google Restarts Street View Info-Grab, Without Illegal Wi-Fi Snooping

Google announced a restart of Street View data capture operations, but in the wake of the fiasco about illegal wireless network snooping, there's no Wi-Fi kit aboard Google's cars. That fiasco is rolling on independently, however.

Google's made its announcement on its GooglePolicyEurope blog, rather fittingly since it's in Europe that Google's wireless network snooping rankled authorities. The post starts, promisingly, with an apology: "In May we announced that we had mistakenly included...