Google to offer opt-out tool for Wi-Fi location tracking

[Jos]

Google has announced that it will offer owners of residential Wi-Fi routers around the world the option of removing their devices from a registry it uses to determine mobile users'…

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[Guest]

there was another case where google was being thrown to court for being google, i.e people with no respect for human beings, where they made an function to disable the thing which they went to court for, only, it didn't actually work, and it wasn't fixed.

just stick to DuckDuckGo. (http://www.duckduckgo.com)

 

[TekGun]

Shouldn't the default be an offer to opt in?

 

[3DCGMODELER]

GPS receivers are now integrated in many mobile phones. ..... As of March 2008, there are 31 actively broadcasting satellites in the GPS constellation...

 

[3DCGMODELER]

and they plan on launching another 24 by 2014
for a total of 60