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How is this even remotely compliant with any basic privacy legislation?
by trutannus 5y ago
How is this even remotely compliant with any basic privacy legislation?
- onionisafruit 5y agoIs mapping wifi access point locations covered by any privacy legislation?
- trutannus 5y agoLikely GDPR, yes.
- Hnrobert42 5y agoI am not so sure. An SSID is not personally identifiable information.
- Doctor_Fegg 5y agoI'm not so sure either. Sit on any train and you'll see lots of personal wifi hotspots called "Fred Bloggs's iPhone". That certainly is PI.
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- onionisafruit 5y agoGoogle doesn't want "Fred Bloggs's iPhone" in their data set anyway. A mobile access point is no use for geolocation.
- KingMachiavelli 5y agoI guess just change your routers broadcast Mac to an iPhone one. Maybe we could use randomized MAC for APs like we have for clients.
- kube-system 5y agoIt might be a fine line to walk with the definition of "other identifiers" here (especially with a BSSID), particularly when RFID tags count as personally identifiable. https://gdpr.eu/recital-30-online-identifiers-for-profiling-and-identification/ https://gdpr.eu/recital-30-online-identifiers-for-profiling-... > Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them.
- viro 5y agois it tho? it's publicly broadcasted data. is wigle.net a huge database of stolen privacy related data now?
- jeffbee 5y agoI recall this was argued in one of the early issues of the journal of data privacy law. https://academic.oup.com/idpl/article/1/3/149/688705 https://academic.oup.com/idpl/article/1/3/149/688705
- trutannus 5y agoHow bizarre that you're being downvoted. This is probably the most useful comment in this thread. The answer is in the first line: WiFi maps do not fall within the scope of existing European privacy legislation. They do not consist of ‘location data’ as defined by the E-Privacy Directive, nor do they consist of ‘personal data’ under the Data Protection Directive, except in highly unusual and very rare circumstances.
- sigzero 5y agoNo, it isn't. An SSID isn't personally identifiable information.