AP source: Google to pay $7M to settle Wi-Fi case

Published March 8, 2013 5:00am ET



SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google will pay a $7 million penalty to settle a multistate investigation into the Internet search leader’s collection of emails, passwords and other sensitive information sent over wireless networks in neighborhoods throughout the country several years ago.

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