Google caught tracking everyone always.

[SwordfishMining]

Summary: When Google began the Street View project in 2007, many privacy concerns were raised, but the debates focused almost exclusively on the collection and display of images obtained by the Google Street View digital cameras. It turns out that Google was also obtaining a vast amount of Wi-Fi data from Wi-Fi receivers that were concealed in the Street View vehicles. Following independent investigations, Google now concedes that it gathered MAC addresses (the unique device ID for Wi-Fi hotposts) and network SSIDs (the user-assigned network ID name) tied to location information for private wireless networks. Google also admits that it has intercepted and stored Wi-Fi transmission data, which includes email passwords and email content. https://epic.org/privacy/streetview/
Meanwhile down under: https://mashable.com/article/google-loc ... g-lawsuit/

[PinkDiamond]

Their tracking practices and loose privacy rules are why I don't use Google for years now, and that first article is all data from 2010, while the second is from August 2018, so I have to wonder if anything at all has been done by the FTC in all these years.

[SwordfishMining]

Nothing was done and Pia was an Industry shill, which goes into why the social media giants are influencing elections to their own benefits. I have to admit, until it is you they are trying to fry, it is just easier to let them track everything everywhere and just use the benefits, like finding lost hikers and planes and forget they could track you down, because they aren't paying attention to what we want.