[governance] Google Wi-Fi gaffe breached Privacy Act

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<1345413553.97359.BPMail_low_noncarrier at web125103.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, 
at 14:59:13 on Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> 
writes
>According to its new Privacy Policy, Information of the Users and about the Users and the environment will be recorded, who is connected
>through which device, OS, network, what is his flavor, choices and selection through browsing history, his connections and contacts to which he
>speak/ talk or meet, what is the location of his contacts
>
>Some of the information is necessary to authenticate the user/client but keep recording as much information about everyone (outside of his
>country by foreign company) is a global cyber security issue.
>Users has no control/option to keep its Privacy.

There are various privacy enhancing techniques which could anonymise 
much of your traffic to search engines, but ultimately if you use such 
services, the proprietors will know what you've looked at, just as 
Blockbuster has a list of the movies you've rented, Air France knows 
about every flight you took with them, and Vodafone knows about every 
call you made or received [company names chosen for global recognition 
purposes only].

Most privacy concerns in the past have been about the extent to which 
such information has been made available to law enforcement authorities, 
rather than what they might do with it themselves outside of the strict 
necessity of providing the service.
-- 
Roland Perry

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