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Most of the replies to you seem to be focused on the relatively uninteresting individual act of recording the location of your publicly broadcast SSID. But the
by carbocation 5y ago
Most of the replies to you seem to be focused on the relatively uninteresting individual act of recording the location of your publicly broadcast SSID.
But the issue arises from the fact that this is done in bulk and is comprehensively catalogued centrally. I think that commenting on a person photographing your house misses the point, because the scale is the thing that matters here. It's not the individual act of recording your SSID, but the scale of doing it in bulk that transforms this activity into something that is unlike photographing your neighbor's house.
- kevinsundar 5y agoStreet view is pictures of houses taken at scale and comprehensively catalogued centrally. Most people don't seem to have an issue with that.
- carbocation 5y agoI think Street View is a perfect parallel example. In both cases, the scale and centralization are key. For Street View, you can opt yourself out by telling Google: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/09/27/how-to-hide-your-home-from-googles-creepy-street-view-spies/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/09/27/how-to-hi... Whereas for the WiFi map, you apparently have to opt yourself out by changing your SSID.
- judge2020 5y agoThe difference is that the wifi opt out method is perfect since they can trust that the person with control of the router's SSID is actually opting out when it receives that list.
- yosamino 5y agoI notice that you said "most" and so you might be technically correct, but you can accurately make out Germany on a map of google streetview availability, because enough people did have an issue with it when it was first introduced.
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