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Google Location Tracking - We Know Where You Live!

Started by soopahfly, April 23, 2011, 20:53:33 PM

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soopahfly

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/22/google_android_privacy_concerns/

If you've got a Wi-Fi network, chances are Google has used its top-selling Android mobile operating system to store your router's precise location and broadcast it for all the world to see.

Google has been compiling the publicly accessible database of router locations in its quest to build a service, a la Skyhook, that pinpoints the exact location of internet users who use its sites. Now, hobbyist hacker Samy Kamkar has developed a site that demonstrates just how comprehensive Google's catalog is.

Plug the MAC address of your router into Kamkar's website, and chances are it will pull up its precise location, courtesy of Google Maps.

http://samy.pl/androidmap/

Got me, bang on :o



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chaotic_uk

QuoteIf you've got a Wi-Fi network, chances are Google has used its top-selling Android mobile operating system to store your router's precise location and broadcast it for all the world to see.

is this not against the law in the uk ?

soopahfly


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filbert

Close, got the right street, but the wrong end.

chaotic_uk

Quote from: Binary Shadow on April 24, 2011, 20:51:46 PM
WTF? this cant be legal surely?

unless something has change as of late as far as i know it is not

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