He said: “[If] you were doing a banking transaction, or transmitting personal information, they could have hoovered it up, sucked it up into their machine”.
They said: “The use of encryption in this manner is a proven technology and is part of banking industry standard practice throughout Australia. Even if portions of Internet banking communications were intercepted by Google’s Street View cars, it is not possible for that data to be decrypted by unintended recipients such as Google.”