XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: unet.lighthouse@xoxy.net   
      
   So it is writ by pamela ,   
   so mote it be.   
   > On 23:10  1 Feb 2016, Mike Yetto wrote:   
      
   >> So it is writ by pamela ,   
   >> so mote it be.   
   >>> On 23:34  30 Jan 2016, Mike Yetto wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> So it is writ by Alice J. ,   
   >>>> so mote it be.   
   >>>>> I use VPN and Google really hates when you come in from multiple   
   >>>>> IP addresses. I also change my user agent string a lot (it's   
   >>>>> random, to avoid fingerprinting).   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You should look at this tool supplied by EFF   
   >>>> (THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION).   
   >>>>    
   >>>>   
   >>>> Mike "don't know if anyone takes it to this level" Yetto   
   >>   
   >>> I wonder if Google tracks the router's MAC address.  That would allow   
   >>> Google to group together any users of the same MAC address in its   
   >>> records.   
   >>   
   >> It will only get the router's wireless Mac address when it comes   
   >> within a practical maximum of 100 meters. I seem to remember   
   >> Google getting into trouble for allowing their street view cars   
   >> to gather anything more than the SSID/BSSID. Actually doing a   
   >> full war-drive to sniff packages is what they will catch shit   
   >> for.   
      
   > Without using cars in the street, if my Android device sends its GPS   
   > co-ordinates to Google then presumably Google could also see the   
   > wireless router's MAC address.   
      
   > I guess Google could make an association between the GPS co-ords and MAC   
   > adress and then store the info in its database.  Along with the IP   
   > address and perhaps SSID for good measure.   
      
   If you think you are that valuable a target for that level of   
   intelligence gathering you should harden all of your systems,   
   including any land line phone, OnStar for your car, credit card   
   numbers, customer loyalty cards, E-Z Pass devices in your car and   
   if you care to believe that facial recognition is as good IRL as   
   it is on NCIS the wear a veil.   
      
   If you were presented proof that they don't do that would you   
   accept it?   
      
   Mike "if not there nothing more to say" Yetto   
   --   
   Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which   
   deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense"   
    - Carl Sagan   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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