[dundee] Google location tracking can invade privacy, hackers say

[Colin Brough]

I popped my (3+ yrd old) router's MAC address in; apparently I'm
somewhere in the Rhondda Valley in Wales... No Android devices in the
house, but a number of friends who visit reasonably regularly do...

Cheers

Colin

Axel wrote:
> I've bought a new Wi-Fi router after Google has stopped collecting Wi-Fi 
> data in Germany, this router is approx. four weeks old and isn't in the 
> database.
> 
> There is one Android device in our household (proudly it isn't my), so 
> this means:
> 
> 1) Not every device is talking to Google.
> 2) The database is four or more weeks old.
> 
> My Suggestion: Change the MAC Address of your Wi-Fi router; best with a 
> real from the database, from the other side of Dundee and Google and the 
> users are confused.
> 
> Axel
> 
> 
> Quoting Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>:
> 
>> I put one of my wireless MAC addresses in and, yes, it gives the location
>>
>> http://samy.pl/androidmap/
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/22/google_android_privacy_concerns/
>>
>>
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Cheers

Colin

Rev Colin Brough
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Fintry Parish Church of Scotland, Dundee
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