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<pre wrap="">Yup, they are doing it to make money. They are a publicly traded
company. That is what they tend to do. My opinion is that if you send
unencrypted data across the street you might as well paint it on the
front of your house too so their cameras can get it. I don't think
there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in that case.
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I do have a reasonable expectation of privacy. And I suspect every
with an open wifi network assumes the same thing. The technically
literate here all have encrypted wifi. The rest of the world, not so
much. <br>
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<pre wrap="">If they want to crack my WPA2 then I'll see them in court. If people
with open wifi expect privacy of any sort, they should put down the
crack. In the meantime, I'll be checking out the current state of Alta
Vista and non-Android phones.
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I fail to see why encrypting it entitles you to any sort of privacy. I
have a lock, I don't have a lock. It's not yours to 'take' either
way. As I noted previosly, you are placing the onus on the public to
have to protect their privacy against invasion by a corporate entity.
My opinion is that the corporate entity needs to stop doing what
they're doing.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Your points are well-taken. As a web commerce expert, do you have a
touch of professional jealousy? <span class="moz-smiley-s3" title=";)"><span>;)</span></span> </pre>
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Not a bit. I'm simply better educated on Google's business practices
than most here. <br>
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<pre wrap="">The part I don't understand is why
this is worse/different than Apple or Microsoft? Or any other
corporate entity? Google has never been central to the FLOSS community
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It's not any different (well except for apple. They may be closed
source, but they're not trampling on your privacy). Except that the
oss/tech community is where Google built it's company - you folks right
here. Yet the tech community is mostly oblivious to Google being a
completely commercial entity with commercial interests at heart. They
still talk like 'do no evil' is something that Google still practices.
They don't still practice that. In other words, the difference is the
blinders to Google's practices from the tech community. If MS did
anything remotely approaching this - even if it had nothing to do with
OSS, the entire tech community would be burning effegies in the
streets. Instead we get platitudes like 'it's not their fault, it's
yours because you're too stupid to encrypt' and 'do no evil'. <br>
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It's beyond me how anyone can attempt to brush off scraping of emails
addresses and passwords across the entire planet, as being OK in any
sense. <br>
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