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Well, well.... "It was all a mistake...We never used the data....It was just a small line of code...". Yeah.
Folks....Secure your Networks!
As Google itself put it:
"The engineering team at Google works hard to earn your trust," Google said. "And we are acutely aware that we failed badly here."
Doc says:
The internet being what is is, Google is the one that is being caught doing this stuff, how many others are doing the same thing that we are not aware of? 
Think about that for awhile and see how safe you feel. 
Philly, I sure as hell don't. As far as I know MS, Yahoo, etc. don't have trucks going around checking out our home/office networks.
I hightlighted those words because none of us do. Don't get me wrong, I not saying that the other folks collect information with as much zeal as Google is believed to.
All of this reminds me a of a bedtime story, 'Grandmother, what big eyes you have, all the better to see you my dear", just saying.
And I agree. To believe those huge data farms are filled only by Google and the government would be...well, naive. I'm sure private corporations and nosy neighbors do it as well.
All the more reason to secure your wireless network in the first place.
Absolutely. 63-character WPA2 keys are well worth the trouble.
They certainly are.
If we knew the truth about how much the government knew about us, we'd freak! Everybody wants information on everybody else, it's been going on for a long time now. I quit Facebook because they can get information from people's computers that have a Facebook accounts. Knowledge is power! I can't believe I just said that! 
It's sad that we live in fear of them. It's sad anyone lives in fear of others. A friend told me the other day that in fact, we surround them. Well, then...why does it feel just the opposite? Fear....of their police/army/agents...they multiply as we cannot seem to unite and they know very well how to divert and divide us, and then bemoan the division and polarity they create. What consummate hypocrisy.
It's bad enough when individual countries/governments collect information on thier citizens, I know, some of it is for usefull purposes. What is really scary is when corporations start collecting information on us.
George Orwell was correct !!!
Someday they won't let you, so now you must agree
The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free
You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984
(David Bowie 1974 Diamond Dogs album)
NA...funny you should write about that (1984), WebGizmos and I were saying the same thing.
Great minds think alike...... What happened to us???? 
Sounds criminal to me. Don't see why Google should be exempt.
You're improving...still a ways to go, but improving. 
And right you are, Dave. 
Now that you explained that Fuzzy everything is much clearer. 
i think china has the right idea - ban google, let them go bankrupt and put the ceo in jail - oh and let us spy on him lol
Please. Move to China, if they'll have you, and then you'll be begging for Google and all their "privacy pirating". Like someone up top said before, if you only knew what other companies/corporations/governments collected on you, you'd be really scared/pissed. Google is nothing. It's a good diversion though...
if china wld have me? they wld love 2 have me am sure. as for google, good riddance to bad rubbish and to be honest i expect my government to monitor stuff. i dont have an issue with that but i do have issues with google. a corporation that ignores its customers, never responds to enquiries and yet is happy to take my money
what china does in china is its own business and if it wants 2 censor google etc then fair enough. i am not deluded about all this democracy crap and why some nations feel they have 2 export it
Well, that covers most governments for you as well. Don't be deluded into thinking government isn't a corporation.
I'm with you on that, although my country was never meant to be a democracy. It was founded as a republic. Democracy (read mob rule) has taken over.
Been saying for years that Google is evil... this revelation goes further to substantiate that it is... pure EVIL.
And let's not confuse this with government prying and snooping (not that I trust, like or believe government, either)... this is a private corporation that profits from information and makes it its business to know all it can about everyone and everything.... purely for profit. I have not doubt that Google's methods and practices are illegal in many (if not most) countries in the world, nor that it would sell sensitive (illegally gained) information to the highest bidder(s).
Google may say that it does not use personal information, well my question to them is: "Well why bother to collect and store it, then? As for Google not making personal information/details public... tell that to my former brother-in-law, whose personal details are there for all to see, just by typing his name into the search box.
On a related note, people, keep your curtains drawn and your blinds closed. I have a 14 y/o great-nephew who's at 'that' age (he hides girlie mags under his mattress, etc), and he told me that he'd seen some "naughty" Google Maps images that somebody had gone to the trouble of collecting and posting on the net. While some are candid camera-type shots of people picking their noses or scratching their arses, that type of thing, he said that many were of naked women (some men, too), filmed through bedroom windows, etc. Now Google might try to say this is accidental, but there's way too many of these images for that... and again, why store them if they were unintentional, and certainly without consent?? More to the point, why make them available to the public???
Yup, Google is EVIL.
Exactly. If you're dumb enough to have an unsecured network in the first place, then you only have yourself to blame if ANYONE (Google, a neighbor, etc) gets access.
natas2 where are you from? democracy is over rated in my opinion, all that chatting and debating to get anything done lol
unsecured networks is a recipe for prying and am suprised ppl still use them. i am not anti google coz they are an american corporation (tho most of these big companies seem to be american) but coz they are hypocrites and money grabbing
i have already written to the CEO of google complaining about their hypocrisy and lack of customer care, did they respond? of course not coz i am just a common customer. now i feel a new letter and video coming on "WiFi Google Spy" lol
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