Google Admits Wi-FI data Collection Blunder (Snooping)
Today/Yesterday, Google Admitted to “wrongly” Collecting people’s information using their “Street View Cars” which is used for data collection for streets in google maps and other services.
A rough estimation puts about 3 years worth of data being gathered in this manner, we do not know if this informaton has been used for targeted advertising or not.
But one thing is for sure, “do no evil” seems to be no more an agenda for Google. Besides, I am too skeptic to provide so much of my information in one data center. This already includes,
1, Mail communications – If you use Gmail or Hosted Apps
2, Search History
3, Web history
4, click through
5, Browse patterns
6, Geographic and travel patterns
and much more…I remember the saying “Big Brother is watching”
If Ottoman Empire is an Intellectual Successor to Byzantine, Google is successor to Microsoft, In Many ways. They just learnt from M$’s Mistakes and are improvising all along…
Street View Cars used in Data Collection
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