Google is no stranger to shady shenanigans with Wi-Fi and Computerworld’s-Michael Horowitz notes that the company can see-the passwords of every single Wi-Fi network you’ve ever connected with on your Android phone or tablet. The issue is that Google automatically backs up all your Wi-Fi passwords to its servers as a default setting for Android devices and that it can see the plaintext data that it’s stored even though your passwords are encrypted before they’re sent to its servers. So although there’s little risk of a hacker breaking into Google’s servers and stealing the encrypted passwords, Horowitz points out that Google can be compelled to hand over Wi-Fi passwords that it has stored on its servers by the United States

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