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1. #Can i search for mac addresses on google maps software#
2. #Can i search for mac addresses on google maps code#

(Google's unnamed project manager claims not to have read Milner's design document.)

#Can i search for mac addresses on google maps software#

While those sentences are technically true, one would have no idea from reading it that the payload-slurping software was intentionally included and that project leaders had been informed, in detail, about the software.

#Can i search for mac addresses on google maps code#

A year later, when our mobile team started a project to collect basic WiFi network data like SSID information and MAC addresses using Google's Street View cars, they included that code in their software-although the project leaders did not want, and had no intention of using, payload data. In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental Wi-Fi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast WiFi data. So how did this happen? Quite simply, it was a mistake. The design document also states that the Wi-Fi data Google gathered 'be analyzed offline for use in other initiatives,' and that ' a non goal (though it happen.' Nevertheless, the design document listed as a 'to do' item, 'iscuss privacy considerations with Product Counsel.' That never occurred. be presented to end users of services in raw form.

Engineer Doe identified privacy as an issue but concluded that it was not a significant concern because the Street View cars would not be 'in proximity to any given user for an extended period of time,' and 'one of the data gathered. and other information used to map the location of wireless access points would reveal nothing about what end users 'were doing.'" Engineer Doe evidently intended to capture the content of Wi-Fi communications transmitted when Street View cars were in the vicinity, such as e-mail, and text messages sent to or from wireless access points. The design document notes that 'ardriving can be used in a number of ways,' including 'to observe typical Wi-Fi usage snapshots.' In a discussion of 'Privacy Considerations,' the design document states, 'A typical concern might be that we are logging user traffic along with sufficient data to precisely triangulate their position at a given time, along with information about what they were doing.' That statement plainly refers to the collection of payload data because MAC addresses, SSIDs, signal-strength measurements. The design document showed that, in addition to collecting data that Google could use to map the location of wireless access points, Engineer Doe intended to collect, store, and analyze payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.