Sorry for the epic "late to the party" reply but... $quoted_author = "David Lochrin" ; > > Apparently a user's location is derived from a database of many sources. > These include not only GPS data and data from mobile cell towers, but > identifying data broadcast by WiFi networks where it's been correlated > with location. It seems Google were forced to stop collecting this > information in Germany using their street-view vans.
Google stopped their wifi data collection because they not only only recorded SSIDs and MAC addresses but also payloads of packets they observed. https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/ This was unrelated to their cessation of Streetview activity in Germany. They decided that allowing people or companies to request properties be blurred out was too much of a burden to support. https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/germanys-complicated-relationship-with-google-street-view/?_r=1 cheers Marty _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
