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Originally Posted by Gargamel
But what's unfair about it, the dominant position I mean. IF you are offering a service that helps locate Wifi services, the best way to do it is to drive down the damn street and look for wifi! If the competition thinks it's unfair, let them drive everywhere gathering that data. Leave the personal info and passwords out, but gather the location data. If somebody is broadcasting a signal in their neighborhood, secured or not, it's existence is public knowledge. There are no secret wifi sites.
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The thing is that Google didn't only scan for wifi networks, but they also recorded the traffic of them. This collection of data without consent is illegal here.
The same happened in Germany, but I expect that Google won't be fined here by our corporate-bowing jurisdiction.