Posted on 05/15/2010 12:18:04 AM PDT by STARWISE
Google Inc. said an internal investigation has discovered that the roving vans the company uses to create its online mapping services were mistakenly collecting data about websites people were visiting over wireless networks.
The Internet giant said it would stop collecting Wi-Fi data from its StreetView vans, which workers drive to capture street images and to locate Wi-Fi networks. The company said it would dispose of the data it had accidentally collected.
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"It's now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products," wrote Mr. Eustace. "We are profoundly sorry for this error and are determined to learn all the lessons we can from our mistake."
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Al Gore is NOT on Google’s board of directors. Al Gore is on the Apple board.
Thank you.
True, but Gore is a senior advisor to google.
How do you “ACCIDENTALLY” collect data? You cannot collect data unless you configure your system to collect the data. Configuring a system to collect data as an informed and an overt act. Your Google arguments are silly humblegunner. Judge them by their friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wPydsgvbTQ
Google’s Eric Schimdt and his best pal George Soros
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOAaUKcFtkc
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said internet users shouldn’t worry about privacy unless they have something to hide
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/google_streetview_logs_wlans/
Henry Kissinger Talks at Google. Kissinger Mentions His Relationship to the Rockefellers, Says His Greatest Accomplishment was Negotiating War Withdrawal with the Communist North Vietnamese and Describes that He was the Only US Person allowed to Shuttle Between Communist Countries. Google’s CEO Eric Schimdt Admits His Father had a Hidden Chairman Mao “Little Red Book”. Kissinger was Tim Geithner’s First Boss. Kissinger has said Barack Obama would be the Architect of a “New World Order.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eM_z4vRxrA
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/ea_china0018_01_07.asp
Jeffrey Sachs Preaching Global Warming to Google
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3kzzVP2c7w
Nothing. It does, however, give friends of Google (like the current regime) insights as to what IP addresses exist at which homes. Might come in handy during the coming crackdown on those not toeing the commie line.
Yeah... it was an “accident”. Sure... accidents like designing the software to scan and record “open” Wi-Fi Networks is just something that “happens”...
That is EXCELLENT NEWS!!! So glad to hear that. :) Thanks for posting it!
In the USSA Google searches YOU!
The paranoid in me bets they handled the data off to the government before wiping it. It almost seems like google is an arm of the NSA.
google bump
bttt
Umm, I think Talisker was being sarcastic.
Related:
“Facebook loses friends as privacy campaign grows”
“...But this week Facebook has experienced perhaps the closest thing to a crisis in its brief history, with reports of an emergency staff meeting at its California headquarters about privacy issues.
Criticism has been mounting since a revamp of the site in December meant users’ profiles became publicly accessible by default. Retreating back into anonymity also became an increasingly tortuous process, with profiles now featuring 50 separate privacy settings and 170 options. This was followed in March by more changes, including plans to automatically share users’ information with outside websites...”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/may/14/facebook-privacy-campaign-delete-account
Big brother, all of them. I have no use for Face Book, My Space, Twitter or any of that crap and if I did, I would never use my real name.
Been preachin that to people I know for years. The worst of it is parents who allow their kids to network all over the map without any knowledge or supervision of what is going on with these sites. Inadvertently conditioning them to be good little global citizens and removing the need for personal privacy by allowing them to participate. Clueless.
Cell towers, yes; hotspots, not really. A hotspot is not a tower; it’s just a small box that anybody can set up and place on their front porch.
The owner should keep the connection locked up with encryption and a passcode, but many don’t; these networks can be “sniffed” and anybody could get traffic information with some cheap equipment.
One shouldn’t connect to an open network without assuming that their communication is being listened to. On the other hand, it’s very bad form of Google to drive around snooping; they really know better and I can’t believe this is some kind of mistake.
Of course Google is an arm of the NSA. Do you think the NSA has as much compute power as Google’s hundreds of thousands of computers? Or that the NSA would let a resource like Google to go untapped?
Maybe that’s the unspoken reason Google has had issues in China.
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