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Sonntag, 16. Mai 2010
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diegolego, 06:00h
People kept asking me why I don't simply get an gmail-account for mailing.
Now it became public, that google - while taking photos for street view - also was collecting data from wifi (aka wlan). In particular, personal data, such as content of emails has been recorded - over a period of 3 years.
Officially, this did not happen on purpose, but was due to some malicious software pieces that made it into the street view thing.
This whole thing sounds a bit strange to me. How can it be, that they save tons of data without even knowing about it? It reminds me of googles motto, don't be evil, which is now obsolete for me. The company proved to be as 'bad' as any other.
Now it became public, that google - while taking photos for street view - also was collecting data from wifi (aka wlan). In particular, personal data, such as content of emails has been recorded - over a period of 3 years.
Officially, this did not happen on purpose, but was due to some malicious software pieces that made it into the street view thing.
This whole thing sounds a bit strange to me. How can it be, that they save tons of data without even knowing about it? It reminds me of googles motto, don't be evil, which is now obsolete for me. The company proved to be as 'bad' as any other.
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