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Lakewood, OH | big whoop so they accidentally caught the mac id and ssid of open wireless routers that are broadcasting. This is something anyone can do legally. I don't see a credible reason to be this rough on them |
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| said by jgkolt:so they accidentally caught the mac id and ssid of open wireless routers that are broadcasting. This is something anyone can do legally. I don't see a credible reason to be this rough on them Actually, according to press reports, they captured PAYLOAD DATA. Meaning the actually captured packets containing data such as email, web traffic, etc. |
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said by jgkolt:so they accidentally caught the mac id and ssid of open wireless routers that are broadcasting. This is something anyone can do legally. I don't see a credible reason to be this rough on them No. The capture of mac ids & ssid was on purpose. The capture of user app data was supposedly by accident. The whole purpose of the mac id; location; & ssid capture was to build a database to be used by google to provide an supplement to GPS data. The location data is meant to fuel Google's ad selling machine.
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Irmo, SC | Source, please...everything I've seen does not indicate any of that to be true. Not saying it isn't, but I'd like to see for myself. |
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kudos:4 | said by Koil:Source, please...everything I've seen does not indicate any of that to be true. Not saying it isn't, but I'd like to see for myself. How about from Google's official lips:
»googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/···ate.html
It is no secret that Google collects info on the location of wifi APs which they use for their mobile mapping products. The big upset right now is that they collected user data payloads as well, though they claim that was an accident.
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Irmo, SC | said by Romney2012:said by Koil:Source, please...everything I've seen does not indicate any of that to be true. Not saying it isn't, but I'd like to see for myself. How about from Google's official lips: » googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/···ate.htmlIt is no secret that Google collects info on the location of wifi APs which they use for their mobile mapping products. The big upset right now is that they collected user data payloads as well, though they claim that was an accident. Thanks..I honestly hadn't read that. After having done so, though and evaluating the effect of it, I can't say that I see any harm here. The information they were collecting was publicly available, and the payload data has been / is being erased, and not only that/ they've stopped collecting the data all together.
I'm an admitted Google fanboy, but I really don't see any evil here.
I still really don't understand any of the Google hate out there. As far as I can tell, especially when compared to any other corp. of its size, Google is pristine...angelic, even.
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There is nothing wrong with collecting payload data. It is broadcasted in public. If the wifi owner did not want anyone to read the data they would encrypt it.
Google did nothing wrong and this german prime minister is the prime minister of retards.
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