![]() Court of Appeals in San Francisco said in 2013 that Google’s argument that the open Wi-Fi networks were more like AM/FM radio wasn’t valid and Google violated federal wiretap laws. The chances that the engineers wouldn’t have noticed that the “Wi-Fi names and MAC addresses” they intended to collect amounted to 200GB of data is quite low. Google claimed that it didn’t use any of the data for business purposes.Ī document revealed by the FCC in 2012 showed that Google did intend to collect payload data transmitted by open Wi-Fi networks and that Google engineers transferred 200GB of data back to a Google data storage facility. Wi-Fi names and MAC address are typically collected for tracking users in order to serve them more targeted advertising. Google at the time said that the data was collected accidentally when it was trying to collect Wi-Fi names and MAC addresses.
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