Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs 230
1800maxim writes "As it turns out, Google didn't only grab the hotspot SSIDs and MAC addresses with its Street View cars. As this article at CNET notes, Google also recorded location data of computers using wireless cards, as well as cell phones and other Wi-Fi devices. Google's explanation is that the data collection was accidental, and they declined to answer further questions from CNET."
Re:Outrage (Score:4, Informative)
It already has. This is the same story for eons ago rehashed in yet another way with absolutely no new information whatsoever. Obviously, if we had payload data it wasn't from routers, so obviously there had to be MAC Addresses that weren't from routers either. We already knew all of this months and months and months ago and it caused at least as big of an uproar back then as the Apple location thing. In fact, it was bigger--since we still have governments investigating Google over this while Apple largely skated by unnoticed (other than some congressional testimony).