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Chaotic week, right? In addition to the piles of work, your brain was preoccupied with thoughts of chemical weapons and Jesse Pinkman’s fate. Keeping abreast of your social-media streams was thus nearly impossible, and now you’re afraid of sounding ignorant should your pals want to talk iPhone 5S or NSA. You can avoid that embarrassing fate by taking a quick spin through the WIRED Dozen, our new weekly compendium of the past seven days’ most essential reads. Give the pieces below a few minutes of your time and you’ll be perfectly equipped to hold your own in any comments section, Twitter exchange, or barroom debate.
Google Gets Slapped by Men in Black
A few years ago, Google’s roving Street View cars swiped reams of private data from unsecured WiFi networks. This week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for individuals to sue Google over the intrusions. The opinion chides the company for contending that unencrypted data is always fair game: “Surely Congress did not intend to condone such an intrusive and unwarranted invasion of privacy when it enacted the Wiretap Act.”
A few years ago, Google’s roving Street View cars swiped reams of private data from unsecured WiFi networks. This week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for individuals to sue Google over the intrusions. The opinion chides the company for contending that unencrypted data is always fair game: “Surely Congress did not intend to condone such an intrusive and unwarranted invasion of privacy when it enacted the Wiretap Act.”
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