Do you have WiFi? Then google go to you

Google again has a puncture with the private life of citizens. In Germany, it has been discovered that Street View wagons scan wireless networks and record the MAC addresses of private users. What is terrible in this story is the fact that no matter what they do with them, it will still be scary.

If published - it is unpleasant and problematic. As information security researchers say, there is a statistical opportunity to associate a MAC address with social network entries.

If they don’t publish, it’s even more problematic, because you don’t know why this information was collected.
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The truth in the whole story is not clear to me exactly how it turned out that MAKI preserve. Okay, I admit the possibility that you can detect scanning for the presence of WiFi networks. But how can you find that some of the transmitted data is recorded?

In any case, Google is certainly not evil, but it certainly starts to induce a muzzle on the skin. (The title of the unrelated article in The Punch ).

As they say in the comments - “change the mac and sleep well”. This is not a fact that will help. Unfortunately, I lost the link, but ran into research that with just a few factors, such as the browser string + the list of fonts installed on the system (which somehow turns out to be pulled out through the browser - either CSS or Java). it is almost unique to identify a person (no cookies), and changing the set of installed fonts is more difficult than rubbing cookies. So the problem is that in order to “sleep peacefully” you already need to rub so much, change (passwords, poppies), enter, memorize and record that life slowly but surely begins to revolve around security and privacy.

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