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SallyRand · 10-23-2010, 11:06 PM

Google IS BIG BROTHER!

I see a google "Street View" car around here and I will shoot at that motherfucker and I gotz very good guns!

Fuck Sergey Brin!

Can you say, "Lying Motherfucker!"?

"Google Apologizes For Privacy Lapses, To Tighten Controls.
By Chris Lefkow (AFP) – 1 day ago

WASHINGTON — Google pledged Friday to strengthen its privacy and security practices after its "Street View" mapping service gathered private wireless data, including emails and passwords, in dozens of countries.

"We work hard at Google to earn your trust, and we're acutely aware that we failed badly here," Alan Eustace, Google's senior vice president of engineering and research, said in a blog post.

"So we've spent the past several months looking at how to strengthen our internal privacy and security practices," he said.

Eustace provided Google's most detailed description yet of the private data on unsecured wireless networks scooped up by Street View cars as they cruised through cities around the world taking pictures.

"While most of the data is fragmentary, in some instances entire emails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords," he said. "We want to delete this data as soon as possible, and I would like to apologize again for the fact that we collected it in the first place.

"We are mortified by what happened, but confident that these changes to our processes and structure will significantly improve our internal privacy and security practices for the benefit of all our users," Eustace said.

He said Google was appointing Alma Whitten, a Google expert on privacy and security, as director of privacy "to ensure that we build effective privacy controls into our products and internal practices."

Google would also enhance privacy training and require employees to take part in a new "information security awareness program," Eustace said.

In addition, Google will require that a "privacy design document" be included as part of all of its engineering projects, he said.

Google announced in May that Street View cars taking photographs of cities in more than 30 countries had inadvertently gathered data sent over unsecured Wi-Fi systems.

Canada's privacy commissioner said Tuesday the data collected included "complete emails, email addresses, usernames and passwords, names and residential telephone numbers and addresses.

"Some of the captured information was very sensitive, such as a list that provided the names of people suffering from certain medical conditions, along with their telephone numbers and addresses," it said.

Google has since stopped the collection of Wi-Fi data, used to provide location-based services such as driving directions in Google Maps and other products, by Street View cars.

In June, Google said it has already deleted private wireless data collected by its Street View cars in Austria, Denmark and Ireland.

Google is facing civil suits in Oregon and several other US states demanding millions of dollars in damages over its collection of personal wireless data and a number of countries have taken action against Street View.

Spain's data protection authority has filed suit against Google and the Czech data protection authority last month banned the company from taking Street View pictures, saying they violated privacy.

Google this week said that nearly a quarter of a million Germans have asked the Internet company to pixel out images of their houses on Street View.

Street View, which was launched in 2006, lets users view panoramic street scenes on Google Maps and take a virtual "walk" through cities such as New York, Paris or Hong Kong.

Until the practice was stopped, Street View cars were collecting Wi-Fi data in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States."

fatfoo · 10-23-2010, 11:10 PM

Google Earth satellite images show close-ups of the ground, so that even individual cars and parking spots can be seen. You can see back yards, roads, fences and buildings. Some people may not like that. It is less privacy.

anexsia · 10-23-2010, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by fatfoo

Google Earth satellite images show close-ups of the ground, so that even individual cars and parking spots can be seen. You can see back yards, roads, fences and buildings. Some people may not like that. It is less privacy.

Thank you, that was a great lesson.

epitome · 10-23-2010, 11:42 PM

Google is gathering street views of a lot of the world.

I'd love to know what that costs in terms of automobiles, gasoline, man hours, storage, equipment for vehicles and so on.

I always wonder why they do it. There is no revenue that I can think of that comes from street view. Maps, yes, but not street view.

DWB · 10-24-2010, 12:09 AM

How do you accidentally pic up passwords and other private data as you drive around taking photos of the street?

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 10-24-2010, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy

How do you accidentally pic up passwords and other private data as you drive around taking photos of the street?

No shit. Google does not give a fuck, and will do whatever they want. Look at Youtube vs Viacom, or Google Books vs the publishing houses and writers. They take whatever data they see fit, apologize for it sincerely when they get caught, then get right back at it.

rowan · 10-24-2010, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by epitome

I always wonder why they do it. There is no revenue that I can think of that comes from street view. Maps, yes, but not street view.

They can sell the image and "real world" mapping data to third parties.

They also use it to record cell phone towers and wifi SSIDs to make a huge database for geolocation on phones and laptops that don't have GPS.

Owner · 10-24-2010, 02:51 AM

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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy

How do you accidentally pic up passwords and other private data as you drive around taking photos of the street?

theyre not accidentally doing it... theyre wardriving while theyre street mapping

BIGTYMER · 10-24-2010, 04:54 AM

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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy

How do you accidentally pic up passwords and other private data as you drive around taking photos of the street?

Unsecured WiFi networks.

While they are doing StreetView they also do scans to find WiFi HotSpots.

Now why are they saving raw WiFi data? I have no clue...

Rankings · 10-24-2010, 05:20 AM

If Earth were to go on sale, I believe Google would buy it

Oracle Porn · 10-24-2010, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy

How do you accidentally pic up passwords and other private data as you drive around taking photos of the street?

rough driver

2intense · 10-24-2010, 08:10 AM

fuck google

Cyber Fucker · 10-24-2010, 08:13 AM

ShellyCrash · 10-24-2010, 08:18 AM

Man, I wish I could remember who I was having a conversation with the other day so I could send them this article.

I was pretty much wondering about the posibility of this very scenario- minus the google maps vans- just someone with the equipment, know how and mal intent and who ever was on the other end kept saying, "Never happen."

Guess it could, and it did.

u-Bob · 10-24-2010, 10:01 AM

If you don't like what Google is doing: stop using them. Use scroogle instead of google. don't use analytics, don't use gmail,....

Davy · 10-24-2010, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by epitome

I'd love to know what that costs in terms of automobiles, gasoline, man hours, storage, equipment for vehicles and so on.

It certainly is not cheap. But since everybody working at Google is a freshman college student, the costs for man power can't be that high.

Jason Voorhees · 10-24-2010, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

If you don't like what Google is doing: stop using them. Use scroogle instead of google. don't use analytics, don't use gmail,....

Exactly, also if Google is so bad, then I'm sure Bing/Yahoo will love you optimizing for them and totally cutting Google off from access to your site, because obviously they are the big bad guys right?

Hypocrites bitch about Googles stuff but suck their dicks for traffic.

Jason Voorhees · 10-24-2010, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Davy

It certainly is not cheap. But since everybody working at Google is a freshman college student, the costs for man power can't be that high.

u-Bob · 10-24-2010, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason Voorhees

Exactly, also if Google is so bad, then I'm sure Bing/Yahoo will love you optimizing for them and totally cutting Google off from access to your site, because obviously they are the big bad guys right?

Hypocrites bitch about Googles stuff but suck their dicks for traffic.

There's no doubt in my mind Google is up to no good so personally I limit my exposure to them. I don't use gmail, I don't use their search engine, I don't use any of their webmaster tools (not just because I don't like them, but because using for example analytics on your site isn't a good idea from an seo point of view),... But i don't complain about the fact that Google collects data or that they should be 'more open' or... Google is a private company, they can do whatever they want as long as they don't cause damage to anyone or anyone's property.
If people don't like what they do, they should just stop using them. Hit them where it hurts: their ad views and the data the love to collect.

Jason Voorhees · 10-24-2010, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

but because using for example analytics on your site isn't a good idea from an seo point of view)

How so? I've always used Analytics and have never had my rankings hurt ONCE over it.

u-Bob · 10-24-2010, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason Voorhees

How so? I've always used Analytics and have never had my rankings hurt ONCE over it.

Why would you want to give Google access to all that info?

Jason Voorhees · 10-24-2010, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

Why would you want to give Google access to all that info?

Because I don't wear a tinfoil hat and think Google is out there to rape and murder my grandmother.

u-Bob · 10-24-2010, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason Voorhees

Because I don't wear a tinfoil hat and think Google is out there to rape and murder my grandmother.

Who said anything about that?

Does Google explain to you everything there is to know about how their algorithm works? No. So why would you give up all your information? Why would you show all your cards?

Jason Voorhees · 10-24-2010, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

Who said anything about that?

Does Google explain to you everything there is to know about how their algorithm works? No. So why would you give up all your information? Why would you show all your cards?

Because I'm pretty positive Google isn't gonna make a competing porn site to muscle me out because they know how my shit works.

borked · 10-24-2010, 02:46 PM

Late to the thread, but I think you can thank Europe for this.... this was news in Europe back in July and ruled on in September if I'm not mistaken.

Good to see it has gone global to stop fucking infiltrating unsecure wifi's, whether that's their prerogative or not.

Just like the law in my country states the hedge/perimeter cannot be more than 2m high, so Google makes it's cameras 2.50m high so it can see over them stating that " a double decker bus can see even higher, therefore this is legal"

Well fuck off cos my property is situated on private land owned by 30 other properties and you still filmed it. The area took you to court and we won 275k€ (thanks Google, you paid for our next 50 years in private fees), yet those images are still available.... I'm smelling another 50k....

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SallyRand So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: In A Galaxie Far, Far Away! Posts: 3,487	"Google apologizes for privacy lapses, to tighten controls"...Yeah, Fuckin' Right....... Google IS BIG BROTHER! I see a google "Street View" car around here and I will shoot at that motherfucker and I gotz very good guns! Fuck Sergey Brin! Can you say, "Lying Motherfucker!"? "Google Apologizes For Privacy Lapses, To Tighten Controls. By Chris Lefkow (AFP) – 1 day ago WASHINGTON — Google pledged Friday to strengthen its privacy and security practices after its "Street View" mapping service gathered private wireless data, including emails and passwords, in dozens of countries. "We work hard at Google to earn your trust, and we're acutely aware that we failed badly here," Alan Eustace, Google's senior vice president of engineering and research, said in a blog post. "So we've spent the past several months looking at how to strengthen our internal privacy and security practices," he said. Eustace provided Google's most detailed description yet of the private data on unsecured wireless networks scooped up by Street View cars as they cruised through cities around the world taking pictures. "While most of the data is fragmentary, in some instances entire emails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords," he said. "We want to delete this data as soon as possible, and I would like to apologize again for the fact that we collected it in the first place. "We are mortified by what happened, but confident that these changes to our processes and structure will significantly improve our internal privacy and security practices for the benefit of all our users," Eustace said. He said Google was appointing Alma Whitten, a Google expert on privacy and security, as director of privacy "to ensure that we build effective privacy controls into our products and internal practices." Google would also enhance privacy training and require employees to take part in a new "information security awareness program," Eustace said. In addition, Google will require that a "privacy design document" be included as part of all of its engineering projects, he said. Google announced in May that Street View cars taking photographs of cities in more than 30 countries had inadvertently gathered data sent over unsecured Wi-Fi systems. Canada's privacy commissioner said Tuesday the data collected included "complete emails, email addresses, usernames and passwords, names and residential telephone numbers and addresses. "Some of the captured information was very sensitive, such as a list that provided the names of people suffering from certain medical conditions, along with their telephone numbers and addresses," it said. Google has since stopped the collection of Wi-Fi data, used to provide location-based services such as driving directions in Google Maps and other products, by Street View cars. In June, Google said it has already deleted private wireless data collected by its Street View cars in Austria, Denmark and Ireland. Google is facing civil suits in Oregon and several other US states demanding millions of dollars in damages over its collection of personal wireless data and a number of countries have taken action against Street View. Spain's data protection authority has filed suit against Google and the Czech data protection authority last month banned the company from taking Street View pictures, saying they violated privacy. Google this week said that nearly a quarter of a million Germans have asked the Internet company to pixel out images of their houses on Street View. Street View, which was launched in 2006, lets users view panoramic street scenes on Google Maps and take a virtual "walk" through cities such as New York, Paris or Hong Kong. Until the practice was stopped, Street View cars were collecting Wi-Fi data in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States." Last edited by SallyRand; 10-23-2010 at 11:07 PM..

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borked Totally Borked Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 6,284	Late to the thread, but I think you can thank Europe for this.... this was news in Europe back in July and ruled on in September if I'm not mistaken. Good to see it has gone global to stop fucking infiltrating unsecure wifi's, whether that's their prerogative or not. Just like the law in my country states the hedge/perimeter cannot be more than 2m high, so Google makes it's cameras 2.50m high so it can see over them stating that " a double decker bus can see even higher, therefore this is legal" Well fuck off cos my property is situated on private land owned by 30 other properties and you still filmed it. The area took you to court and we won 275k€ (thanks Google, you paid for our next 50 years in private fees), yet those images are still available.... I'm smelling another 50k.... __________________ For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com (consider figuring out the email as test #1) All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box. p202