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Google's Street View Gathers Information From As part of your House

Google Street View can be a very useful service. Anytime I go on a journey, I'll use Google Routes and Google Street look at before I leave. The ability to view the road and surrounding areas makes me feel much more comfortable traveling to new areas. I know some people have privacy concerns concerning their street or houses being so easily shareable. While I don't share those concerns I really do applaud Google's policy of blurring out the images of anyone who owns the property and demands it.

Google Earth used satellite television images it received via other sources. Google Street View may be the work of Google. They send out any fleet of cars along with bikes with special cameras and equipment to take all those pictures. Earlier this year Google was caught capturing Wifi signals as it was mapping locations. This exposure led to certain policies arriving at light.

Google was actively deciphering and recording every instant access point it found. Google was also logging the MAC of every access point. With this information Google is wanting to gain additional info. If you went to a Google service coming from one of these simple access points, Google would know almost wherever you were.

In the process of collecting these details Google had to admit which they "inadvertently" captured usernames, passwords and emails. Most of this information was fragmented and never obviously exploitable. I'm sure with slightly work, they could match the users using the passwords and the emails. Google has since rewritten their software never to capture the "data" but they will still be recording the access stage. If Google was able to find the MAC address of your own home wireless router, they will recognize you whenever you go to one of their services. I don't like this kind of. Google claims they didn't know these folks were capturing user names, passwords and "data". I wonder if the FTC could be as willing to acknowledge that excuse from me easily started scanning my neighbors. 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 exploring privately. Not only can everyone in the store see what what you are doing, but people outside the store are able to see as well. For those who still think they're not being seen, do an Internet search for Kismet or Wireshark. Better yet, do a YouTube search and find out these tools in action.

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