Google have got into a bit of hot water when it emerged that while their cars drove around taking pictures for their Street View service, they collected and stored people’s private WiFi traffic. People have understandably got angry with Google for doing this, but I think some demystification is in order.
I'm Bill P. Godfrey (aka billpg), a professional software engineer of over twenty years, with experience in embedded systems, C#/.NET and Windows services.