Google’s privacy troubles

Google’s privacy troublesThe privacy concerns with Google is jostling up big time as the recent updates claims of seeing Google's Street View cars lined up and photographing 95% of the UK.

The cars were also laden with radio antennae caught signals from the nearest home-based Wi-Fi networks.

According to the experts the present idea of Google is to build a map of Wi-Fi hotspots, to capture more of clientele and thus squeeze more revenue out of it.

In the mode of devising the Wi-Fi contours of the country, Google "mistakenly" collected sampling data from these unsecured wireless networks. These included brief snippets of information that were jotted down from emails, documents and similar such details, or in simple terms conflicting with people's private communications and online activities.

Privacy activists have stressed on this matter claiming it to be public-based information that is highly classified and may land Google in facing law files.

However this appears to be an incident that seemingly teaches us a lesson which may of us are yet to learn.