Google Street View issues

[GostHacked]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1323310/Google-admits-Street-View-cars-DID-emails-passwords-computers.html

What a way to collect a gold mine of information. Even the 'Do no Evil' company has done the evil. During the streetview data collecting and mapping, they have now admitted to collecting passwords/email/personal information from open unsecured networks.

Now it is a problem I see with many people taking such a blase approach to their personal information, whether they put it online or they get hacked or not securing their digital information with passwords and encryption keys.

People need to take this very seriously. Secure your digital information. In this day and age where you are connected to millions of computers world wide, it is a necessity to secure your stuff.

Google was accused of spying on households yesterday after it admitted secretly copying passwords and private emails from home computers.

The internet search giant was forced to confess it had downloaded personal data during its controversial Street View project, when it photographed virtually every street in Britain.

In an astonishing invasion of privacy, it admitted entire emails, web pages and even passwords were 'mistakenly collected' by antennae on its high-tech Street View cars.

I've shut my wireless off on my home network. What I had found was that even though my SSID was hidden, not broadcast and encrypted, my sister's iPhone was able to pick up the network name I had set up. That should have not been the case.

So do yourselves a favour and secure your information. Even when data is 'mistakenly' accessed, it can be used by someone and steal your identity.

[Slim]

Well that's a little disconcerting. I try to password my wireless, but wheneve I reset my router (which is often) it loses the password again and becomes unsecure. Hooray.

[GostHacked]

Well now this is interesting..

http://searchengineland.com/google-ends-street-view-wifi-data-collection-potentially-needs-other-sources-for-location-53373

Not often mentioned in this discussion is the “why.” One of the purposes of collecting WiFi locations is to enable Google to identify user location (on handsets, laptops and PCs to some degree) through triangulation using a database of hotspots.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39800916/ns/technology_and_science-security

AN FRANCISCO — Google admitted for the first time its "Street View" cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed — including complete e-mails and passwords —potentially breathing new life into probes in various countries.

The disclosure comes just days after Canada's privacy watchdog said Google had collected complete e-mails and accused Google of violating the rights of thousands of Canadians.

Looking at articles, many countries around the world are resisting and pushing back on Google's 'accidental' info snoop. There is nothing accidental about it. You don't accidentally access someones information. This was purposeful data collecting/mining.

Google once was the 'Do No Evil' company. My personal view on that has changed dramatically. If they were simply mapping out things, then how do they 'accidentally' access other peoples information?

This kind of thing does not sit well with me.

[DogOnPorch]

Damn...how am I going to stalk Denise Richards now?

[bloodyminded]

Damn...how am I going to stalk Denise Richards now?

Get in good with her ex. (Bring booze. Lots.)

[DogOnPorch]

Get in good with her ex. (Bring booze. Lots.)

Dr Evil: Do you like your quasi-futuristic clothes Mr. Powers? I designed them myself.

[bloodyminded]

Dr Evil: Do you like your quasi-futuristic clothes Mr. Powers? I designed them myself.

Walter: So you have no frame of reference here, Donny. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know....

[GostHacked]

So any of you ok with this type of action/behaviour?

[bush_cheney2004]

So any of you ok with this type of action/behaviour?

It's just fine...if you don't like it...don't patronize Google and unplug your router for good. Or better yet...sic the CRTC after them in Canada. LOL!

[GostHacked]

It's just fine...if you don't like it...don't patronize Google and unplug your router for good. Or better yet...sic the CRTC after them in Canada. LOL!

No it would be more like RCMP and such. It's happened in other countries as well. They purposfully snooped on open wifi networks which is illegal here in Canada.

I am sure they broke many US laws when gathering the same data.

Would you recognize a police state even if you were in one?

[bush_cheney2004]

No it would be more like RCMP and such. It's happened in other countries as well. They purposfully snooped on open wifi networks which is illegal here in Canada.

No big deal...no jail time in Canada even for murder!

I am sure they broke many US laws when gathering the same data.

Would you recognize a police state even if you were in one?

..nor would I care. If rubes like this don't understand how Google and the "government" work together then they deserve more conspiracy theories. You have no privacy...get over it.

[GostHacked]

No big deal...no jail time in Canada even for murder!

That would be due to your terrible prosecution of Khader which is indictive of the way W.o.T. is being fought. (if that is the reference you are talking about)

..nor would I care. If rubes like this don't understand how Google and the "government" work together then they deserve more conspiracy theories. You have no privacy...get over it.

I can see through that, you actually do care. It is the reason you post here.

I have a right to my privacy in Canada, and that is why this is such a big deal to me. The US constitution also states you have a right to your privacy. What Google did is illegal is almost every country they did this in.