Wi-Fi privacy

[MoFo]

Yo, I'm using my neighbours wi-fi without their permission, so if I tick boxes like 'save password' and 'always remember details' on sites like Facebook, and they go on said sites, will they be able to see my shit?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

No, it's saved on your computer.

However, if they download anything illegal and your trace is on their router, they could possibly blame you for it.

[MoFo]

Thx

[thedamndest]

I use my neighbor's Wi-Fi to illegally download things and mine not for that.

[Downunder]

Google knows your shit:

GOOGLE has admitted secretly copying millions of passwords and private emails from home computers.

After months of denial, the internet search giant has finally confessed to downloading personal data during its controversial Street View project, when it photographed nearly every street in Britain.

Australia's Google spokesman refused to comment when contacted yesterday.

But in an astonishing invasion of privacy, Google in Britain said that emails, web pages and even passwords were "mistakenly collected" by antennas on its hi-tech cars.

Privacy campaigners accused the company of spying and branded its behaviour "absolutely scandalous".

Scotland Yard is considering whether the company has broken the law.

In the UK, Google executive Alan Eustace issued a grovelling apology and said the company was mortified.



"We're acutely aware that we failed badly," he said.

Critics seized on the admission as the latest example of technology's ever-expanding ability to harvest information about ordinary households, often without their knowledge or consent.

Google sent a fleet of cars around Britain in 2008, armed with 360-degree cameras to gather photographs for its Street View project.

There were immediate complaints that the pictures were a security risk after householders complained house numbers and car registrations were easily identifiable.

Privacy fear followed when it emerged that individuals could be seen, including a man emerging from a sex shop in London's Soho.



Earlier this year the California-based firm admitted the cars' antennas had also scanned for wireless networks, including home wi-fi, which connect millions of computers to the internet.

Google registered the location, name and identification code of millions of networks in Britain alone and entered them into a database to help it sell advertisements.

It has now emerged that emails, web pages and passwords were copied. ~ DAILY MAIL



s and stored during that split-second.

"It's absolutely scandalous that this situation has developed," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International.

"There are a lot of questions that need to be answered about how and why the company did this."