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Google should change its FAQs about WiFi data collection to line up with what its PR people are telling journalists.
The report understands the spectrum of use cases and specifically calls out the need for identity solutions to be privacy enhancing and voluntary for the public
“Privacy Change: Apple Knows Where Your Phone Is And Is Telling People”
The company says it may now collect, use, transfer, and disclose our iPhone, iPad or computer identifier and location for any purpose if we opt into iTunes.
Tiny RFID tags used to track movements of bees
Everything copied is recorded to hard disk and can be extracted by anyone with access to the machine and some readily available software
Google says the user’s device sends a request to its location server with a list of all MAC addresses currently visible to it. Does that include yours?
There is a difference between understanding something theoretically and right in the gut.
Mapping the attendees at a conference to home addresses even when they’ve never consented to any such tracking is not going to be hard if you’ve gone to the trouble of scanning every street in every city in the country.
Google knew about the collection of MAC addresses, and has never said otherwise or stated that their collection of these addresses was done accidently.
