澳洲翻头条:Google's regrets for what it calls a mistake

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Google's regrets for what it calls a mistake
谷歌称其为失误,并表示遗憾


DYLAN WELCH AND ARI SHARP
June 8, 2010

http://www.smh.com.au/technology ... -20100607-xqvs.html

THE financial and personal details of Australians could have been ''hoovered up'' by Google as they photographed Australian streets and the web giant may be seeking to patent the program they used to do it.
谷歌对澳洲的各处街道拍照,此举可能已经将澳人的经济和个人资料“向吸尘器一样地吸纳”起来。而该互联网巨头还可能打算对他们用以拍照的程序申请专利。

Google is under fire in North America, Europe and Australia after collecting 600GB of data from unsecured wireless internet connections while taking photographs for its map function, Street View, in as many as 30 countries.
谷歌通过没有安全措施的无限互联网连接收集了约600G的资料,这一做法已在北美、欧洲和澳洲遭受猛烈的抨击。与此同时,谷歌还使用谷歌地图附带的“街道景观”功能在30多个国家进行拍照。

A spokesman for Google Australia said: ''This was a mistake for which we are profoundly sorry.''
谷歌的澳洲发言人称,“这是一个失误,对此我们深感遗憾。”

The federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, said yesterday: ''If … you were doing a banking transaction or transmitting personal information, they could have hoovered it up, sucked it into their machine.''
联邦通讯部部长Stephen Conroy昨天表示:“如果你在进行一项银行交易或处理个人信息,这些资料都可能被谷歌像吸尘器一样吸进他们的机器里去。

The Australian Federal Police are investigating possible breaches of the Telecommunication Interceptions Act, while the Privacy Commissioner is carrying out a separate probe into whether Google has breached the Privacy Act.
澳洲联邦警察署目前正在调查谷歌此举是否违反了澳洲通讯窃听法案(Telecommunication Interceptions Act), 而澳洲的隐私委员会也在另行项调查谷歌是否违反了隐私法案。

Authorities in Canada, Germany, France and Spain are also investigating Google's actions.
加拿大、德国、法国和西班牙的有关当局也都在调查谷歌的这些行为。

A Google software engineer is being investigated by the company for creating the ''rogue code'' that collected the data, its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said last week.
上周谷歌的执行总裁Eric Schmidt称,谷歌正在调查其公司的一名软件工程师,因为他创作了这个用以收集数据的程序的“源代码”。

However, a class-action lawsuit being lodged in the US does not accept that a single engineer was to blame. A document tendered in that lawsuit states that Google not only purposefully created technology to gather wireless data, but is also seeking to patent that same technology. Google has denied the claim.
然而,在美国提起诉讼的团体诉讼案件不允许谋个工程师个人来承担罪名。该诉讼案中搜集到的一份文档则表明,谷歌不仅蓄意制造了从无线网络收集数据的技术,更希望将此技术申请专利。而谷歌否认了这一说法。

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1.hoover up:
   1). (transitive) To suck (something) into a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
          Don't worry about the mess on the carpet - I'll hoover it up later.
   2). (transitive, idiomatic) To eat (food) quickly, especially by taking it into the mouth directly from the plate rather than using cutlery.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hoover_up

2. Under fire
1). Exposed or subjected to enemy attack.
2). Exposed or subjected to critical attack or censure: an official who was under fire for mismanagement.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/under+fire

3.class-action lawsuit 集体诉讼
A lawsuit brought by one or more plaintiffs on behalf of a large group of others who have a common legal claim.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/class-action

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