[Noisebridge-discuss] google war driving

[karen marcelo]

On Apr 30, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Jason Dusek wrote:

> 2010/04/29 karen marcelo <karen at srl.org>:
>> streetview google van logs MAC addresses.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> so i think every meeting if so inclined, those who want to
>> exchange hubs are encouraged to bring them in at the next
>> meeting and exchange away :)
> 
>  I think this will do little to improve privacy for many
>  people. The databases used by Google, &al. would remain
>  relatively useful so no major firm would be discouraged from
>  this practice.

it would if people put  up a stink like germany.

> 
> 
>  We could also just not worry about; these routers beam all our
>  data to the NSA/Wal-Mart mountain fortress, anyways.
> 

heh we stopped crossposting to noisebridge but on dorkbot there was an example of data being aggregated by someone else
and correlated publicly for sale in the future.  pay again to opt out.  

the point is privacy rights are eroding thru time.  laws arent keeping up with new devices.  people themselves arent aware 
of these laws or choose not to excercise them because we all want our apps.  and there's lots of if a is doing it and so is b why cant c
logic going around. 



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> Jason Dusek
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