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abraham
on July 27, 2022
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Google Maps launches Street View in India
Google announced they would no longer collect wifi info with street view vehicles.
https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collec...
fomine3
on July 28, 2022
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In 2010, it's expected that Android will take majority market share of smartphone. I think Google no longer needed to collect such data for wifi geolocation from vehicle .
solardev
on July 27, 2022
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Google has a bad history of making "innocent" mistakes like this, always in favor of data collection. They just happened to be caught that time.
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