{"id":16844,"date":"2010-05-18T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=16844"},"modified":"2010-05-18T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:34:07","slug":"google-admits-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/google-admits-guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Admits Guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100507Sandy-Earth.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100507Sandy-Earth-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sandy Earth\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16661\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>German officials finally find a crack in Google&#8217;s armour and get an admission that they have been collecting private data from unprotected wireless connections since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The breach was perpetrated using  a fleet of camera equipped Vehicles designed to collect data for Google Maps-Street View .  In addition to recording  wireless locations world wide they were also harvesting what Google calls \u201csnippets of activity on WiFi networks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to collect this data in the first place\u201d<\/strong> said Google spokesperson Peter Barron.  Google adds further insult by insisting it was <strong>&#8220;all a big mistake&#8221;<\/strong>.  I find this explanation  just a little hard to swallow, especially since the admission  is the direct result of, and  due solely to,  the  persistence of The German Data Protection Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/wifi-data-collection-update.html\"target=_\"dblank\">Blog<\/a>,  it&#8217;s obvious that damage repair is in high gear. Be sure to read the whole thing  as its tone is set with perfection.  Peter Schaar, the German commissioner of data protection, describes Google&#8217;s &#8220;Accidental Data Colletion&#8221; excuse as  <strong>&#8220;highly unusual&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOne of the largest companies in the world, the market leader on the internet, simply disobeyed normal rules in the development and usage of software,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n<p>The US, which was previously absent in these developments,  is now expected to launch its own probe through the US Federal Trade Commission.  Marc Rotenberg, leader of the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Centre in Washington, calls this one of the most massive private surveillance incidents ever .<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is unprecedented vacuuming of WiFi data by a private company. Can you imagine what would happen if a German corporation was sending cars through Washington sucking up all this information?\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good question Marc but apparently questioning a corporation known for &#8220;data collection&#8221; never occured to us.<\/p>\n<p> Below is an excerpt and link to the previous TechTalk article.<\/p>\n<div \nstyle=\"background-color:#dddddd;*margin:5px*\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Google Records Wireless Connections WorldWide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The initial resistance to  Street Views was quickly dropped by German officials after Google agreed to use pixilation to hide license plates, faces, and house numbers. Google also allowed citizens the right to completely remove their property from photo archives.  The option was  fully embraced by hundreds of concerned German  citizens and as a result of Google&#8217;s efforts,  the service should be activated in Germany by the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Short story, no problem right?  Wrong!  Later German regulators expressed more resistance when they learned that Google was also recording the location of wireless routers for W.L.A.N.&#8217;s in homes and businesses.  All of these routers broadcast a unique ID number or MAC address.   Google was asked to end the practice by Germany&#8217;s Data Protection Administrator, Peter Schaar.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the complete article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/google-records-all-wireless-connections-worldwide\/\"target=_\"dblank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m dying to hear your opinion on this.  Everyday we are bombarded with Identity Theft, Worms, Trojans, and threats we have yet to imagine.  It&#8217;s just sad to think that Google is another of the many money making machines blind siding us on a daily basis.  I sincerely hope further probing results in some return of our rights and maybe even a renewed effort to preserve them.  It looks like we could take some cues from our German friends.<\/p>\n<p>Voice your opinions and comments here.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/wifi-data-collection-update.html\"target=_\"dblank\">Google Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/254ff5b6-61e2-11df-998c-00144feab49a.html\"target=_\"dblank\">Financial Times<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/05\/14\/google-private-data-colle_n_577015.html\">HUFFINGTON<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100518bandit.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100518bandit-e1274218983918.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"bandit\" width=\"150\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16942\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time we opened our eyes and took a look around.  I don&#8217;t think relying on good intentions is going to cut it any more.  Our privacy deserves at least a little effort to preserve.  Is anyone else bothered by this? <\/p>\n<p>German officials finally find a crack in Googles armour and get an admission that they have been collecting private data from unprotected wireless connections since 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1220,1255,261,374,512],"class_list":["post-16844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-pit-blog","tag-admits","tag-corporation","tag-google-maps","tag-marc-rotenberg","tag-peter-barron","tag-peter-schaar","tag-private-surveillance","tag-protection","tag-result","tag-wifi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google Admits Guilt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Maybe it&#039;s time we opened our eyes and took a look around. 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