Bend over, here it comes again.
Between 2007 and 2010, during the debut of its Street View service, Google gathered all the Wi-Fi network names and router MAC addresses it could find from wireless networks encountered by its cars as they drove around snapping photos of buildings and roads. It also captured some network traffic from open Wi-Fi networks and, in the years that followed, was pilloried and fined some measly millions by privacy authorities around the world for doing so.
On Tuesday, Google said since the beginning of 2017, it has been collecting the locations of cell towers near Android phones. But having not found much use for the info, the practice is supposedly on its way out.
Essentially, when an Android handheld passes a phone mast, it quietly contacts Google’s servers to report the location of the tower, even if the user has disabled location services – allowing the ad giant to potentially figure out folks’ whereabouts as they wander about town. Google claims the collection is part of an experiment to optimize the routing of messages through mobile networks.
Even if you never travel with a mobile phone, the potential for abuse of the rest of the Earth's citizens through this blatant data collection is enormous.
Think about how an abusive government or government agency could use this data against you. The EPA under a Hillary clone would salivate.
Just ask Mr. Bundy if the government ever abuses its power.
Or a Christian in China or North Korea.
Ahh.... Gunner, can you rotate the doll 180 degrees?