{"id":581591,"date":"2010-05-27T05:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T09:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100526\/0051129579.shtml"},"modified":"2010-05-27T05:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T09:47:41","slug":"stephen-conroy-continues-to-attack-google-claims-wifi-data-collection-was-done-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581591","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Conroy Continues To Attack Google; Claims WiFi Data Collection Was Done On Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Conroy, the Australian politician who has been pushing hard to massively filter and censor Australia’s internet has been fighting Google for a while now. After the company made comments about why such censorship was a bad idea, rather than respond to the issues, Conroy came out swinging by attacking the company<\/a> for its Buzz privacy mishap, and quoting Eric Schmidt out of context. So, of course, with Google’s WiFi data capture admission<\/a>, Conroy has some new ammo. He’s claiming that it couldn’t possibly have been an accident and that this represents “the largest privacy breach in history across Western democracies.”<\/a><\/p>\n

While it’s no surprise that Conroy doesn’t like Google and its opposition to his plan to censor the internet, perhaps he should stay away from laughably ridiculous hyperbole. The only data Google collected was what was passed over open WiFi connections in the split seconds that it drove by those access points with its Street View vehicles. These are networks where anyone<\/i> on those networks could have just as easily have done the same thing — except if someone was really on one of those networks, they could keep recording that data, rather than moving on when the traffic light changed. Furthermore, there’s no evidence that Google ever did anything<\/i> whatsoever with whatever data it did collect. Making claims about this being some huge privacy breach when there’s no evidence that anyone ever even saw<\/i> the data seems pretty questionable.<\/p>\n

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