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Google's Avenue View Gathers Information From Within your House

Google Street View is a very useful service. Anytime I go traveling, I'll use Google Road directions and Google Street watch before I leave. The ability to view the street and surrounding areas makes me feel more at ease traveling to new locations. I know some people have privacy concerns concerning their street or homes being so easily watchable. While I don't share those concerns I really do applaud Google's policy involving blurring out the images of anyone who owns the property and asks for it.

Google Earth used satellite tv images it received coming from other sources. Google Street View will be the work of Google. They send out the fleet of cars as well as bikes with special cameras and equipment to adopt all those pictures. Earlier this year Yahoo and google was caught capturing Wifi signals mainly because it was mapping locations. This exposure led to certain policies visiting light.

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

In the process of collecting these records Google had to admit they "inadvertently" captured usernames, passwords and emails. Most of this information was fragmented and never obviously exploitable. I'm sure with a little work, they could match the users with all the passwords and the emails. Google has since rewritten their software to not capture the "data" but they it's still recording the access place. If Google was able to have the MAC address of your property wireless router, they will recognize you while you go to one with their services. I don't like this specific. Google claims they didn't know these folks were capturing user names, passwords and "data". I wonder if the FTC would be as willing to recognize that excuse from me if i started scanning my neighbours. I really don't similar to this.

Finally, let this serve as a lesson. When you are sitting with 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 can see as well. For those who still think these are not being seen, do an Internet look for Kismet or Wireshark. Better yet, do a YouTube search and see these tools in actions.

Please click the link to find out more about Google Earth Street View.