Representatives in Spain, France and the Czech Republic announced investigation on Google’s collection of data from wireless networks in their countries. They said Google violated local privacy laws, and they began to gather evidence against Google. United Kingdom and Ireland did not investigate about this issue, but the British Information Commissioner’s office asked Google to destroy the data collected in their country.
Google admitted it had unintentionally collected 600 gigabytes of data described as snippets of Web sites and e-mail messages from unsecured Wi-Fi networks around the world. The company said it was wrong to collect and store information form Wi-Fi networks while gathering data for the Street View layer of images in Google Maps.
I do not understand why google collect 600 gigabytes of data from many countries around the world.
www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/technology/21streetview.html?hpw
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3 years ago
I cannot understand all this fuss about Google and its allegedly violation of users privacy. Do we reaaly think we are living in a world that seriuosly takes the privacy into consideration? Do we really think that the privacy actually exists? We use the debit or the credit card and we are traceable, we walk and there are thousands of security cameras filming us, we make phone calls and there is Echelon overhearing it, we go to the grocery stores and we give them check out girl our "absolutely free" fidelity card and they are able to track our consuming behaviour. Simply put, privacy does not pay and, even sadder, does not matter. And the thing is that everybody violating our privacy seems to have a the mist valid reason to do so. The Government in order to prevent terroristic attacks, the grocery markets to offer better and more customized services to their clients, and so on and so forth.
ReplyDeleteYears ago I made a subscription to "The Economist" and I received a letter, among others, from "NetJets" exposing me the benefits of having a share in private jet fleets to have them always available had I to travel wherever in the world!
Privacy is a word that had some meaning back in time when chosing the option of not having our personal data sent into circulation really meant something. It can be sad to state but privacy has died years ago.