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> It is just pinging around. Google did just drive around and listen on 2.4 GHz. I think there was wide agreement that collecting the data was unethical.
by usr1106 5y ago
> It is just pinging around.
Google did just drive around and listen on 2.4 GHz. I think there was wide agreement that collecting the data was unethical.
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- tentacleuno 5y agoWhy drive around when you can deploy a software update on billions of mobile phones that'll do that for you?
- teddyh 5y ago“Beautiful. Unethical. Dangerous.” — Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight, 2008
- gruez 5y ago>I think there was wide agreement that collecting the data was unethical. AFAIK the unethical bit was that they were collecting unencrypted wifi traffic, which at the time could contain sensitive information (many popular sites were unencrypted back then). I don't think there's "wide agreement" that collecting wifi beacons was "unethical".