Google Wi-Fi Plan Stirs Big Brother Concerns
Verne Kopytoff writes in The San Francisco Chronicle:
Privacy advocates are raising concerns about Google Inc.'s plans to cover San Francisco with free wireless Internet access, calling the company's proposal to track users' locations a potential gold mine of information for law enforcement and private litigators.More here.
The Mountain View search engine intends to use the geographic data to match users with advertising so that they would see marketing messages from neighborhood businesses such as pizza parlors, cafes and book stores.
posted by Fergie @ 4/08/2006 12:20:00 PM
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