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Have we had a Google Evil thread yet?


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Not sure. Here's one anyway.

Are they becoming evil. Are they already.

I do not know.

 

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Google has mapped every WiFi network in Britain

 

Google has mapped every wireless network in Britain in order to use the information for commercial purposes, it has emerged.

 

Every WiFi wireless router ? the device that links most computer owners to the internet - in every home has been entered into a Google database.

 

The information was collected by radio aerials on their Street View cars, which have now photographed almost every home in the country.

 

They do seem to want to take over the and control world though these big tech companies don't you think.

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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-update.html

 

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On Friday May 14 the Irish Data Protection Authority asked us to delete the payload data we collected in error in Ireland. We can confirm that all data identified as being from Ireland was deleted over the weekend in the presence of an independent third party. We are reaching out to Data Protection Authorities in the other relevant countries about how to dispose of the remaining data as quickly as possible.
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Reported in another thread, proving Evilness.

 

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A Los Angeles-area woman is suing a Salt Lake County man and Google for an amount in excess of $100,000, alleging that Google Maps led her onto a dangerous Park City roadway where she was struck by a car.

 

In a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for Utah, Lauren Rosenberg, through her Provo-based attorneys, Young, Kester & Petro, states that on Jan. 19, 2009, she sought instruction from Google Maps on her Blackberry for directions to walk from 96 Daly Ave. to 1710 Prospector Ave. in Park City. The attorneys could not be reached for comment Monday.

 

According to the suit, Google Maps directed Rosenberg along Deer Valley Drive, which is State Route 224, in an area "where vehicles travel at a high rate of speed and [is] devoid of pedestrian sidewalks."

 

The suit states: "Google undertook the duty to exercise reasonable care in providing safe directions to patrons of its Google Maps service. [but] Google failed to warn plaintiff Rosenberg of said known dangers..."

 

It claims that Salt Lake County resident Patrick Harwood was driving an automobile southbound in a "negligent" manner and struck Rosenberg, "causing her to suffer severe physical, emotional, and mental injuries... and causing her to incur medical expenses in an amount exceeding $100,000."

 

The suit seeks from Google an amount in excess of $100,000 to be determined at trial.

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