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Post Tech - Google 'mortified' that Street View cars scarfed up e-mail, passwords; privacy criticism intensifies. In a press statement worthy of Captain Renault, Google says that it was "mortified" by the discovery that its street cameras and trucks were collecting emails, passwords and other Internet traffic while they plied the world's streets to populate Google Maps with photos and directions. The most sophisticated computer engineers in the world created the software and hardware used to populate the street view vehicles; but, Google's senior management had no idea what they were doing. The data was collected "accidentally", Google says, and promises to make no use of the data, deleting it as fast as possible. The Google motto will probably be amended soon, to "Do No Evil, Except Accidentally".