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Google's Road View Gathers Information From With your House

Google Street View is often a very useful service. Anytime I go on a holiday, I'll use Google Road directions and Google Street look at before I leave. The ability to view the road and surrounding areas makes me feel more comfortable traveling to new areas. I know some folks have privacy concerns with regards to their street or residences being so easily viewable. While I don't share those concerns I do applaud Google's policy regarding blurring out the images of anyone who owns the property and asks for it.

Google Earth used satellite images it received via other sources. Google Street View is the work of Google. They send out the fleet of cars and bikes with special cameras and equipment to consider all those pictures. Earlier this year Search engines was caught capturing Wifi signals because it was mapping locations. This exposure led to certain policies coming to light.

Google was actively deciphering and recording every wireless access point it discovered. Google was also logging the MAC of each one access point. With this information Google is intending to gain additional data. If you went to your Google service coming from one of these brilliant access points, Google would know almost in which you were.

In the process of collecting this info Google had to admit which they "inadvertently" captured usernames, passwords and emails. Most of this information was fragmented and not obviously exploitable. I'm sure with somewhat work, they could match the users with the passwords and the emails. Google has since rewritten their software not to capture the "data" but they will still be recording the access level. If Google was able to obtain the MAC address of your property wireless router, they will recognize you once you go to one with their services. I don't like this. Google claims they didn't know these were capturing user names, passwords and "data". I wonder if the FTC would be as willing to acknowledge that excuse from me only started scanning my neighbours. I really don't such as this.

Finally, let this serve like a lesson. When you are sitting in a location using their free of charge WiFi, you are not surfing around privately. Not only can everyone inside the store see what what you are doing, but people outside the store is able to see as well. For those who still think these are not being seen, do an Internet hunt for Kismet or Wireshark. Better yet, do a YouTube search to see these tools in activity.

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