Dagmar wrote:
If Google has to have government snoops up in their business for two years over some packets that were the equivalent of wifi confetti.

The "outrage" over the wifi collection is as phoney as "net neutrality." Its a non-issue. Google knows its a non-issue. The politicians know its a non-issue. And beating that dead horse over and over again makes everybody happy, because it looks like they are "doing something" about privacy, they'll all say with a straight face that they are "doing something" about privacy, and a lot of them even believe it.

Actual privacy advocates end up burning time on this stuff. Sitting in hearings and writing pages and pages of testimony so they don't have time left over to write papers on something that actually matters. Its a diversion, and it works. And you can't say they aren't doing something about privacy. They sure are. They've done tons of work on it. They're as busy as a pack of pissed off fire ants.

But real privacy regulation that actually matters? Ain't gunna happen. Not in this country. Privacy is bad for business and bad for law enforcement and nobody else cares 'cept a bunch of wako liberal activists who are exactly the sort of idiots who fall for this kind of wifi confetti bullshit.

RE: Facebook strips more of your privacy away, by default