sign me up.
It would occur to me that without a search warrant, the NSA owes all of us $10,000 per e-mail, password and text message they’ve scooped up.
No wonder they don’t want anyone to know. National security my ass.
I’m in...ammo ain’t cheap.
Wouldn’t mind that considering they pretty much have destroyed the music industry through Youtube. Any band that releases an album today a day later it’s up on Youtube for anybody to download, and the RIAA sits on its hands. I do not get that at all, Youtube owned by Google a multi-billion dollar company you would think they would be buried in lawsuits especially considering they are making money off these bands in ad revenue.
Because class action lawsuit lawyers like the biggest possible pile of cash (they take 50%).
When they engineering the lawsuit against Sony and others for price-fixing CDs at a high price point (illegal collusion), they settled out of courts. Even states got behind it. The lawyers got the cash and the states got crappy cut-out CDs.
Shakespeare had the right idea.
“Google tried and failed to convince a trial judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals panel in San Francisco that it was legal to intercept the Wi-Fi networks, because open Wi-Fi networks are the equivalent to AM/FM radio transmissions.”
What an excuse. “AM/FM radio transmissions” are meant to be
intercepted by the public.
Alan Butler,“It has to be the biggest wiretap case in U.S. history.”
You know Mr.ButLer is an Obama supporter when he intentionally
overlooks the real “biggest wiretap case in U.S. history.”
Obamas use of the NSA to spy on his political oponents.
Unless this ends up differently than most other similar litigation, if it appears likely that there is a real chance that the litigation will succeed, Google will settle with the plaintiffs’ lawyers for a few hundreds of millions each, and the actual plaintiffs will receive a coupon for a 5% discount on a pack of chewing gum.
Where do I get the release to sign, and when do they send me my $10K? < /sarc >
Every industry in the USA seems to have a life-cycle which starts at zero regulation, rapid growth, huge innovation, and huge wealth production. It then goes to the start of increasing government regulation, and various interest groups (deserved or not) going after that wealth, with slower growth and less innovation. The next stage is stagnation and decline.
The first phase is about 25 years. Google is entering it now.
Bottom line - consider everything you do on LAN (Ethernet wire or WiFi), cell phone, Internet, Facebook (especially the apps), LinkedIn, etc. as public and out there.
When Google did StreetView, we should have been screaming.
In.... Google has pissed me off more than once with their shenanigans...
Be happy to bankrupt google. They are evil.
Lawyers who filed class action get $9,990 out of every $10,000, you’ll be lucky to see $10.
Google has wi-fi interception receivers/antennas mounted on vehicles to intercept others communications with the software that interprets that data?
first I heard of this.
What is their claimed legitimate purpose for this?
The lawyers will rake in the money. Individuals will get a few pennies.
Count me in. After the lawyers get their cut of a class action lawsuit, I may get $10.
This is silliness. Broadcasting in the clear can be received by anyone, legally. That’s not “intercepting”, it’s listening.
Good.
Little group of leftist censorship Nazis deserve to take a big money hit.
Google is “literally lying” about what they did. Right, Eric Schmidt?
Bankrupting that evil company?
Can’t think of a more worthwhile effort.
Since Google could only grab data from open networks, anyone that has/had their router encrypted was safe.
Based on what I saw available in my neighborhood a few years ago, no more than 30% left their networks open. Almost none now.
I got a Netgear router not too long ago, setting up encryption with it was much easier than my old Linksys. Much friendlier interface.
Nonetheless, Google’s actions were obviously criminal and intentional. Those responsible should have been prosecuted. They knew what they were doing.