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All the more interesting when you consider that Google's mass of data is an invaluable resource to the authorities.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
All the more interesting when you consider that Google's mass of data is an invaluable resource to the authorities.
- mpyne 13y agoIndeed, should be interesting how we decide to balance laws that have to essentially apply to both individuals and global megacorps. Certainly it would be weird if a computer activity that were legal if done by a person suddenly becomes illegal if done by a company that brings on one more new hire, make one more dollar of revenue, etc. But at the same time we do have those kind of different requirements elsewhere in law for "real life" things since the scale is way different, so it's not as if there would be no precedent.
- eli 13y agoI doubt a collection of incidental packets from random unsecured access points recorded years ago would be terribly useful to them. I personally don't think sniffing packets on an open WiFi network should necessarily break wiretapping laws. Or at least not the same laws. Bugging someone's phone just feels like a more serious crime to me than packet sniffing an unprotected network.