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From: John Navas
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:51

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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:53:36 -0500, in
<k3b716lomjhn98o6r22j4vadpthpgj7p5i@4ax.com>, Char Jackson
<none@none.invalid> wrote:

>On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:07:16 -0700 (PDT), bod43 <Bod43@hotmail.co.uk>
>wrote:

>>I think that what google have done is probably illegal in the UK.
>>Certainly I have read in the papers that some guy was convicted
>>of sitting outside a house "borrowing" the WiFi.
>
>Have there been any reports claiming that Google 'borrowed' any
>bandwidth? All I've seen so far is that they might have created a log
>of open AP's, which is basically a passive activity. I was going to
>say it's hard to believe that would be illegal, but then you said
>this:
>
>>We have many, many wide ranging criminal laws and it would seem
>>impossible that Google are not in breach.
>
>Sounds like the laws might be the bigger problem.

The laws are actually a model of private data protection.
We should be so lucky in the USA.

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