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Google Found Guilty of Australian Privacy Breach
schliz writes "The Australian Privacy Commissioner has found Google guilty of breaching the country's Privacy Act when it collected unsecured WiFi payload data with its Street View vehicles. While the Commissioner could not penalize the company, Google agreed to publish an apology on its Australian blog, and work more closely with her during the next three years. Globally, Google is said to have collected some 600 GB of data transmitted over public WiFi networks. In May, the company put its high-definition Australian Street View plans on hold to audit its processes."
Lie. It is like google putting a microphone a intersections in a city at the footpaths and recording the conversations, it is like google scanning and analysing all email that pass through their system because they are 'postcards', it is like all the other privacy invasive system google have running, internet search monitoring, recording and analysing, social network analysis, web site visits via google syndication, the google analytics cookie and via all the others means the google 'preverts' choose to monitor every person on the planet and those same 'preverts' have accessed to feed their ego.
'Suck it up', times are a changing and the ability of companies to invade the privacy of the public is going to be curtailed more and more. Not that it will stop the government from doing the same thing but at least they can be publicly audited, be held accountable and be forced to make the data accurate.
The really most amazing yarn don't trust politicians they lie to you but trust corporations even when the main reason politicians lie to you is because corporations pay them to. So who do you pursue most, the corruptee or the corrupter, the bribe receiver or the bribe payer, the one paid to hide the crime or the one who commits the crime. When corporations corrupt politicians who should be pursued first, the lie cheat and steal corporate executive or the lying politician on that corporate executive's payroll. Here's a wake up call for you, remove the corrupt politician and that corporate executive buys another one, remove the corporate executive and there is no one to pay the bribe and the problem is over.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
and if I recall correctly, they didn't even intend to use a packet sniffer, it was just some debug code that got left in by mistake.
Yeah, right.
Pull the other one, it's got bells on.