Google’s Brin on Wi-Fi spying: ‘We screwed up’
SAN FRANCISCO—Google co-founder Sergey Brin didn’t mince words in addressing one of the worst privacy-related gaffes his company has ever committed.
“In short, let me just say it: we screwed up,” Brin said in response to a question on Wednesday here at the Google I/O conference about the company’s disclosure last week that it had been collecting personal Internet usage data through its Google Street View program. “I’m not going to make any excuses about it.”