Privacy and Google and Your Home Network

[jonzr]

You might wanna take heed.  It's a pain in the arse as one must then fix all associated devices on the network, but it's a one time deal.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/243883/google_offers_optout_for_wifi_location_database.html#tk.rss_news

[Big Virgil]

That's only if you have an unsecured wireless network, right?

[jonzr]

On unsecured networks Google was scanning them and storing info about them.  But even on secured ones, they were keeping the ssid info.  I think basically, recording that yup, there's a network named xxx plus whatever else they could gleen - probably more than we know.