Use Wi-Fi? Google Knows Who You Are

Someday, someone will become extremely unhappy with these clowns.

Google's Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world, a practice that raises novel privacy concerns, CNET has confirmed.

The cars were supposed to collect the locations of Wi-Fi access points. But Google also recorded the street addresses and unique identifiers of computers and other devices using those wireless networks and then made the data publicly available through Google.com until a few weeks ago.

So. If you use a box which connects by Wi-Fi, Google has the box's MAC address and your Wi-Fi location in addition to pretty pictures of your house (and car(s)).