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> enables a range of data harvesting by Google Location Services that includes detailed sensor traces fused with GPS, WiFi, and others Brought to you by the co
by josefx 5y ago
> enables a range of data harvesting by Google Location Services that includes detailed sensor traces fused with GPS, WiFi, and others
Brought to you by the company that got caught war driving while running Google Streetview and sniffing for passwords and emails transmitted. All signed of by management[1], despite initial attempts to throw the hacker they hired for it under the bus.
[1] https://www.darkreading.com/risk/google-wardriving-how-engineering-trumped-privacy https://www.darkreading.com/risk/google-wardriving-how-engin...
- justinsaccount 5y ago"got caught" -> voluntarily disclosed "sniffing for passwords and emails" -> collecting unencrypted data broadcast to anyone nearby. If you believe them (which you might not, since you seem to have issues here) they never even looked at any of this data once they realized what the software was collecting.
- josefx 5y ago> "got caught" -> voluntarily disclosed The first disclosure I could find insisted on exclusively collecting MAC and SSID. They also tried to push a "single developer" narrative in updates to it before the FCC investigation (involving fines and subpoenas) turned up several emails and a whitepaper approved by management that documented the whole war driving setup and possible use cases for the collected data. Next up Al Capone disclosed crime empire: "I might have forgotten to tip a waiter once".