Privacy Police Go Paranoid Against Google

[Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>]

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/06/privacy_police_go_paranoid_aga.php



(Yes, this is a little about driving traffic to my blog, but it’s also
on-point for funsec.



Why do people get so irrational about privacy issues?

I've spoken to several people who have been involved with real software
development (as I have) and we all find Google's explanation of the Street
View Wifi data collection
incident<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364904,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05079TX1K0000992>
 perfectly plausible. I'll go further: The idea that they intended to
collect Wifi payload data for this operation is highly implausible.

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