Street View Cars Grabbed Locations of PCs, Phones and More

I thought Google claimed all this Wi-Fi data collection by the Street View cars was an accident? From the looks of this, the company "accidentally" collected a lot of info about you and then made it public. Do no evil my ass.

The cars were supposed to collect the locations of Wi-Fi access points. But Google also recorded the street addresses and unique identifiers of computers and other devices using those wireless networks and then made the data publicly available through Google.com until a few weeks ago.

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