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That's because the software Google used didn't actively browse the networks to look for documents, but passively intercepted and logged packets. If they wrote a program that actually searched the networks for shared folders and copied information that way, then conceivably they could be guilty of unauthorized computer access.

> That's because the software Google used didn't actively browse the networks to look for documents

Do we know that for a fact? Sorry if well known, genuine question.

When did you stop beating your wife? How do we know for a fact?

> When did you stop beating your wife? How do we know for a fact?

I never was accused of that. Silly response. Google has been accused of several privacy violations.

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