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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Google as the target of Austrian's witch hunt

Before my trip to Rhodes last week, there was a huge fuzz about the Wi-Fi stuff and Google Streetview cars here in Austria. Google had to stop Streetview due to several year old wifi data that nobody will ever use any more.

Thanks to the paranoia of some people and the privacy commission I cannot use Streetview here in Austria for the next few years. Thanks! The DSK as our privacy commission is called, does a great job, no doubt, but by prohibiting Google from providing a service to millions of people who wanted to use it they clearly limited my right for information retrieval.

I think everybody knows that we need institutes that provide a big bunch of data because a single person can not collect this information. Google should not have collected wifi fragments (that should be encrypted anyway) and they should pay a fine for that, but they should not have to stop Streetview just because they have data garbage in their cars.

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