XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: catwheezel@operamail.com   
      
   On 2016-02-04, Alice J.  wrote:   
   > Whiskers wrote in message   
   > slrnnb6uls.rl.catwheezel@ID-107770.user.individual.net:   
   >   
   >> I don't know that Google do record the MACs associated with SSIDs,   
   >> but there's nothing stopping them from doing so.  They could store   
   >> that information for ever - but not necessarily make it available to   
   >> mobile phones trying to locate themselves, or to anyone else.   
   >   
   > All the articles said the MAC was stored, and, it makes perfect sense   
   > (since it's actually pretty stable compared to the SSID).   
      
   It would be more efficient to store only the MACs.   
      
   > If anyone knows how to get your MAC out of the database, let us know!   
      
   Nuke Google's servers.  And Apple's and Microsoft's and Nokia's ...   
      
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