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by DanBC
5154 days ago
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> 1. If you're blasting your data over an unencrypted wifi connection, do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy? Yes, you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Connecting to someone's unsecured wifi is a criminal offence; scooping data from that connection maybe in some jurisdictions. People may be stupid for not securing their wifi. But no-one at Google is stupid. They don't have that excuse. > Do we seriously think that this data was collected maliciously? Not being evil isn't a magic pass for being daft. Google should have known better. The engineer raised concerns, so at least one person knew it might have been a problem. Google has lived through years of people being concerned about privacy. How can they get something so simple so wrong? |
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Not necessarily. Check your local laws, and be aware that they will almost certainly differ from those elsewhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking