Re: Google is Evil indeed...

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Rob Thompson
<my.security.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/googles-wi-spying-and-intelligence-ties-prompt-call-for-congressional-hearing-98769559.html
>
> ""The patent makes repeated reference to 'capturing' packets,
> including paragraph [0055], which states that the system will enable
> geolocations so long as the equipment being used 'is able to capture
> and properly decode a packet...'"
>
> &&
>
> "It has also been widely reported that Google has been working in
> "partnership" with the National Security Agency, the very same
> government body that illegally intercepted the private communications
> of millions of Americans during the Bush administration."

Very alarming (perhaps the conspiracy-theory folks were right....):

"Based on today's Washington Post ... it also appears that Google's
widely criticized efforts to collect wireless network data on American
citizens were not inadvertent, contrary to the company's claims."

I'd make the leap that Google's actions in other countries were not
'inadvertent' either.

Jeff
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