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On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Williams wrote:
If Bob can find your network, then I'm sure Google can...I don't live on a street, I have a moderate distance of my own property between the road an my router. 80yds at an estimate. I don't imagine google had directional antenna sprouted in all directions, at a guess just larger/more sensitive general one/s. Most likely at the top of their camera assembly somewhere, it would be most logical?
Google have been using this data since well before the Streetview cars did their tour of the country, so I doubt it's part of the same survey, despite what the New Scientist thinks.
As others have said, the information is often broadcast well past the boundary of your house. If you don't want to broadcast your data, don't use wi-fi.
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