[LINK] Google's WiFi bungle

[Stephen Wilson]

It's not a bullshit story.

Craig Sanders wrote:

> google collected publicly available data that people were broadcasting
> for anyone to see. so what? big deal.
>   
The big deal is that under the Privacy Act you cannot in general collect 
personally identifiable information without a real need to do so, 
without telling people you're doing it, and without controls on what you 
then do with that information.  Whether it's publically available or not.

Steve Wilson.

> the technically-correct fix is for the morons who had/have unsecured
> & unencrypted wifi access points to actually get off their arses and
> secure them.
>
> but once the media have sensationalised the hell out of a bullshit
> story, the solution is PR, not tech.
>
> craig
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