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Article #190Re: NEWS: Google accused of criminal intent over StreetView data
From: Bob
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:28
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:28
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On 10/06/2010 06:14, Char Jackson wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:22:03 -0700, John Navas<jncl1@navasgroup.com> > wrote: > >> "The independent audit of the Google system shows that the system used >> for the wi-fi collection intentionally separated out unencrypted >> content (payload data) of communications and systematically wrote this >> data to hard drives. This is equivalent to placing a hard tap and a >> digital recorder onto a phone wire without consent or authorisation," >> said PI in a statement. > > I'm not defending Google, but I have to wonder how much "unencrypted > content (payload data)" they were able to gather as they drove down > the various streets. It seems like the vehicle would be out of range > before it could gather much payload data. > If they were trying to do wifi location as part of their mapping I doubt that they would be moving, I would expect them to be stationary to increase the accuracy of their triangulation when using GPS. Googles patent:- <http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220100020776%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20100020776&RS=DN/20100020776>
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