Of course they hired a WiFi expert for their WiFi-related project. But that doesn't mean their claim of rogue behavior is simply self-protection. What if they hired him for his expertise with Wi-Fi and told him they only wanted to collect the minimal amount of data but he went rogue and collected ALL the data anyway? But I'm with those people that think the freely broadcast unencrypted packets are in the public domain and Google didn't do anything illegal.
Sigh. They're not related per se, but the same cars were used to collect street view photos and SSID->location mappings (used for Android positioning).
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Of course they hired a WiFi expert for their WiFi-related project. But that doesn't mean their claim of rogue behavior is simply self-protection. What if they hired him for his expertise with Wi-Fi and told him they only wanted to collect the minimal amount of data but he went rogue and collected ALL the data anyway? But I'm with those people that think the freely broadcast unencrypted packets are in the public domain and Google didn't do anything illegal.
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Sigh. They're not related per se, but the same cars were used to collect street view photos and SSID->location mappings (used for Android positioning).
Not the best source, but it gives you the gist of things:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196397/googles_wifi_spying_wh...