Google will increase the privacy of geolocation Wi-Fi services

The wide distribution of wireless networks, which makes it possible to determine from their signals the availability of various objects for Google search results, as well as the “careless” handling of this data by the corporation, as is well known, has already served as a reason for scandals. The fines of 100,000 euros in France and the injunctions in the Netherlands, which were the result of Google’s “at the same time” gathering Google’s Wi-Fi access point MAC addresses, apparently made the search giant reconsider to the privacy of wireless networks and provide users with more flexibility.

Yesterday, Google Fleet’s advisor on global privacy, Peter Fleischer, appeared in the European blog Google, saying that his company, although it takes into account all the brilliant and useful features that wireless networks provide for geoservices, and in no way without identifying people, nevertheless decided to develop a mechanism that will allow users to refuse to have their access point an element of the Google geolocation structure.

Details about this new privacy management feature from Google will be this fall, but nothing prevents one from imagining the work of the future service: it’s likely to be about allowing access point owners to find their devices in the Google database and propose making decisions regarding their accounting in geolocation.
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