pcworld.com— German prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation over whether Google broke data protection regulations when it collected fragments of Wi-Fi data.
May 20, 2010View in Crawl 4
I like to print out crap and tape it to my windows. Then yell and bitch when people come up and read it! How dare they!Lock your access points, or don't bitch when it's snooped. Thank God it was Google, who owned up to it btw; and not someone who would have used it to steal your identity, or worse.Shut the f**k up Germany.
Tnbass they were doing it to help with their geolocation services. They were collecting macaddresses as well as other misc. stuff which included data fragments.
I don't think people are being bias'd at all - we just laugh at all the idiots who have their wifi open publicly. There is about 4 houses on my block with it open and I generally will use it if I'm walking my dogs and streaming pandora. If nothing else, maybe this will open the courts eyes into making idiots lock their own wifi
True, true although everyone is secured in my neighborhood there are many open networks across town that I can hop on to. Still, I just get the vibe that so many people would follow Google off of a cliff if that were possible.
solkreMay 20, 2010
I like to print out crap and tape it to my windows. Then yell and bitch when people come up and read it! How dare they!Lock your access points, or don't bitch when it's snooped. Thank God it was Google, who owned up to it btw; and not someone who would have used it to steal your identity, or worse.Shut the f**k up Germany.
marx2kMay 20, 2010
Tnbass they were doing it to help with their geolocation services. They were collecting macaddresses as well as other misc. stuff which included data fragments.
eshinnMay 20, 2010
Don't worry... they "Do no Evil".
arkouroborosMay 20, 2010
ITT: People who support Google no matter what
railzMay 21, 2010
I don't think people are being bias'd at all - we just laugh at all the idiots who have their wifi open publicly. There is about 4 houses on my block with it open and I generally will use it if I'm walking my dogs and streaming pandora. If nothing else, maybe this will open the courts eyes into making idiots lock their own wifi
arkouroborosMay 21, 2010
True, true although everyone is secured in my neighborhood there are many open networks across town that I can hop on to. Still, I just get the vibe that so many people would follow Google off of a cliff if that were possible.