Posted on 05/15/2010 12:18:04 AM PDT by STARWISE
Google Inc. said an internal investigation has discovered that the roving vans the company uses to create its online mapping services were mistakenly collecting data about websites people were visiting over wireless networks.
The Internet giant said it would stop collecting Wi-Fi data from its StreetView vans, which workers drive to capture street images and to locate Wi-Fi networks. The company said it would dispose of the data it had accidentally collected.
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"It's now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products," wrote Mr. Eustace. "We are profoundly sorry for this error and are determined to learn all the lessons we can from our mistake."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
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There’s more:
“Facebook founder called trusting users dumb f****”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
“Loveable Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called his first few thousand users “dumb f****” for trusting him with their data, published IM transcripts show. Facebook hasn’t disputed the authenticity of the transcript.
Zuckerberg was chatting with an unnamed friend, apparently in early 2004. Business Insider, which has a series of quite juicy anecdotes about Facebook’s early days, takes the credit for this one...”
I closed down my facebook page a few days ago-I should have done it a long time ago.
Yeah, right, (G)OOGLE...”oops”....
The globalization machine continues to skip right along, to the cheers of Obama and his minions.
I was going to get an Android phone (HTC Incredible). However, can I really trust an OS from a company like this?
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