Google Still Hasn't Deleted Street View Data
 

http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/ne...& .lang=en-US

Don't be evil my ass.

I hope the EU sticks it to them. The US sure as fuck isn't going to do anything.

LOL @ "The Web search leader was fined $25,000 in April for impeding a U.S. investigation into Street View data collection."

A whole $25,000...bet that stung!

Corporations are people too! :1orglaugh

preposterous !

how soon until google starts making WMD's
ds

how soon until they send a t800 back through time to kill Sarah Connor...?

That's like 25 cents to mortals like you and I.

I don't think they are still mentioning their "don't be evil" motto. Considering they want to index everything, I highly doubt they can continue to subscribe to that motto without cracking up

Fines should be a percentage of gross income, not an arbitrary slap on the hand.

"accidentally collected data from unsecured wireless networks"

accidentally...ahahaha

I just love the way Google lies :)

I think they dropped the don't be evil thing a couple years back. Now evil is okay as long as it's profitable.

Funny guy. :)

Their equipment would have been passively capturing packets (receive only), not actively chattering to initiate an agreed upon connection to an access point.

I like my flash only websites, google can suck a dick on indexing any of that magic.

Translation - "Let's take a good look at everyone's data first before we decide if we should delete it."

Yeah...what was Google doing collecting that data in the first place? Kinda' makes you want to break in to a Google street view vehicle and check out the hardware they're packing.

so http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/ne...& .lang=en-US is true than?

"Now"? :)

It's always been OK, as long as it's profitable. Google is just another one in the long line of companies doing it.

Bing makes me more money these days, Google can go fuck itself :upsidedow

How much of your traffic comes from Bing/Yahoo these days?

On a side note, sent you an e-mail the other day, did you get it?

:1orglaugh

Depends on the site, but decent for most of them. I also tested a few Adsense vs Bing Adcenter mainstream ppc bidding and Bing converted by far the best.

I got your email, I'll send a reply today when I get back home :upsidedow

again ! ... this is redickulous

serious fer rillz, whut up dough

Capturing access point SSIDs for their geolocation service. They store the SSIDs that are reachable at their car's current co-ordinates, then when a mobile device phones home with a list of SSIDs it can see in range, Google can return an approximate (and sometimes quite accurate) location.

From memory access points constantly bleat their SSIDs, so there's no need for Google's radio hardware to do anything except listen.