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speedwell68
April 23rd, 2011, 10:27 PM
Ok, I am not really up to speed with the whole Google/Android privacy issues, so I am sorry if this is a repost.

Today I came across this page...

http://samy.pl/androidmap/index.php

I put in my BSSID and it had no record of it. Then I put in the MAC address for my router's ADSL port and again it found no record of it. So I put in the MAC address for my router's LAN port and it found it. Pinpointed my home address. How have Google got this information. My router is secured by WPA2, how could they have the MAC address for my home LAN? Could it been have gathered from using Google products or services like Chrome, Chrome OS, Earth, Picasa or iGoogle?
Dry Lips
April 23rd, 2011, 10:51 PM
If one of Google's Streetview cars passed by your home, it would have
picked up the mac-address (+SSID, etc) of your router. (I suppose it is wireless.)

http://newmatilda.com/2010/05/18/google-watching
speedwell68
April 23rd, 2011, 11:34 PM
If one of Google's Streetview cars passed by your home, it would have
picked up the mac-address (+SSID, etc) of your router. (I suppose it is wireless.)

http://newmatilda.com/2010/05/18/google-watching

I had considered that, but when Streetview was mapped in this area I didn't live in this house.
3Miro
April 24th, 2011, 12:16 AM
It can pick it up if you give your address on any Google device it can track you MAC + Address that you gave Google.

Your ISP knows your home address and router. I hope it is not them giving this info to Google.
Dry Lips
April 24th, 2011, 12:21 AM
Could it been have gathered from using Google products or services like Chrome, Chrome OS, Earth, Picasa or iGoogle?

Yes. Have you seen the round button in GoogleMaps? The one that says "show my location"? (See screen-shot below)



When you allow google to "know your location", what you are really agreeing to is to send to google's computers your wifi environment. Not only the name of the wifi hotspot you are logged into, but something much, much more. The names and signal strengths of every wifi hotspot around you.

Quote from:
http://theamericandictator.com/content.php/133-Google-has-created-a-virtual-GPS-on-YOUR-laptop-desktop-computer-cellphone.-Really