Google Audits Street View Data Systems 229
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from the we-meant-to-do-that dept.
from the we-meant-to-do-that dept.
schliz writes "Google's plans to upgrade to high-definition Street View in Australia are on hold until it completes a rigorous internal audit of the processes, it announced today. The company is currently being investigated by international regulators about possible privacy breaches when it became known that its Street View vehicles were capturing not only publicly available SSIDs and MAC addresses, but also samples of payload data transmitted over these networks."
Re:"Publicly Available" (Score:2, Informative)
Yes, people should definitely secure their communications.
That said, just because someone leaves their door open, doesn't mean Google should waltz right in.
Re:this is gonna be interesting (Score:5, Informative)
Compared to Google, BP is the mom and pop grocery on the corner.
In what world do you live in? BP is a $246 billion dollar global energy company. In comparison, Google is a dinky little $24 billion dollar company. Not to mention how BP has 4.5 times as many employees. One can go on and on about how your characterization is plainly wrong.
Re:"Publicly Available" (Score:5, Informative)
Stumble This! (Score:5, Informative)
This entire wireless thing is total BS. From what I have read, they were using kismet for their wireless collection program. and if they were channel hopping like any good war-driver I assure you they were not around long enough to get anything useful. (DNS,netbios,MDNS packets etc) All of it was open to begin with and all ready up for grabs. most people know what they are buying now when they get an AP that is not setup properly (Big warning stickers printed on box for setup).
Re:this is gonna be interesting (Score:3, Informative)
Re:this is gonna be interesting (Score:3, Informative)
Re:IMHO (Score:3, Informative)
Re:this is gonna be interesting (Score:4, Informative)
As of this writing, BP's market cap is $129.89B, while google's is $149.69B. Even before the current mess, BP's stock was about 50% higher, which would have given it a market cap of about $195B; more than google, but still in the same league.
Links (will probably have different values by the time you view):
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=bp [yahoo.com]
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=goog [yahoo.com]
I think the comparison is unfair for other reasons, as I mentioned [slashdot.org], but relative company size is not one of them.
Re:this is gonna be interesting (Score:2, Informative)
The Gulf is actually quite small compared to the Earth
That's like saying you're town is quite small compared to the rest of the Earth. No harm in nuking it. The subjectivity of the word large is not important in the scheme of this conversation. This oil leak is not a natural occurrence. History does not change this fact.