Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

Grant Gross reports:

Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google’s snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company’s level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

Representatives Frank Pallone Jr., a New Jersey Democrat, and John Barrow, a Georgia Democrat, called on the DOJ to fully investigate Google’s actions for potential violations of federal wiretapping laws. In light of a recently released U.S. Federal Communications Commission report on Wi-Fi snooping by Google Street View cars, the DOJ should take a new look at the company’s actions, wrote the lawmakers, in a Thursday letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

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