Sunday, 15 January 2012

Google caught pilfering Kenyan business directory in sting operation

After getting some weird phone calls, a Kenyan business directory found that someone was harvesting the business details it collected, then calling the companies and telling them that the directory was going to start charging them�which it wasn't.

The directory did some detective work and set up a sting. Who was slurping down their data and lying to their businesses? It turned out to be none other than Google.

Source:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/google-caught-pilfering-kenyan-business-directory-in-sting-operation.ars

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