[governance] Google Wi-Fi gaffe breached Privacy Act

[Imran Ahmed Shah]

Thanks Ronald,
What about the information recording of all Users of Google Apps' that also includes;
Geo location,
Client System ID, 
Location,
Network, IP
Credit Card Numbers
WiFi, SSID, (Hot spot)
Search Logs and Communication
Full access to PIM Data,
Bluetooth Connections,
GPS location,
Media and Images stored on Mobile Device
Communication and Contact Links
etc.

Regards

Imran
------------------------------
 On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 9:31 PM PKT Roland Perry wrote:
 
 >In message <1345283393.42074.YahooMailNeo at web125102.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, at 02:49:53 on Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> writes
 >> Does this action of "Information Collection" by Google really breach the Privacy Act, PIPA
 >
 >What Google did was to wiretap (and keep) small fragments of the traffic on wifi hotpots as they drove past.
 >
 >That's probably an offence under long standing law in most countries (I wouldn't want to start making a list of them off the cuff).
 >
 >For it to have been a real threat to the persons in question, they would have had to refrain from switching on encryption[1] and to have been sending/receiving some emails (or whatever) in exactly the few seconds the Google Streetcar was listening to that particular hotspot.
 >
 >[1] Even the simplest type would have been sufficient, the fragments captured are not enough to start any useful "cracking".
 >-- Roland Perry
 >

-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t