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Google Street View Scanning & Mapping Your MAC Address?

 
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 3:21 am    Post subject: Google Street View Scanning & Mapping Your MAC Address? Reply with quote
Why in the world would Google's Street View cars be scanning for MAC addresses? According to the German Federal Data Protection Commissioner, Street View cars are equipped with Wi-Fi scanners that are mapping the location of wireless networks. WTF?

The data-protection official is worried that Google is acquiring various piece...read more
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