Google
is poised to pay a modest $13 million to end a 2010 privacy lawsuit
that was once called the biggest U.S. wiretap case ever and threatened
the internet giant with billions of dollars in damages.
The
settlement would close the books on a scandal that was touched off by
vehicles used by Google for its Street View mapping project. Cars and
trucks scooped up emails, passwords and other personal information from
unencrypted household Wi-Fi networks belonging to tens of millions of
people all over the world. more
