Google's wifi misadventure, and the gulf between IT and Privacy
An article for the iappANZ, examining what Google's carelessness with data collection tells us about technologists' appreciation of privacy.
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"Many responses to Google's most recent misadventure over wireless network data show we still have a long way to go. Too many are naively downplaying the incident as if privacy and secrecy are equivalent.
"It's understandable for people to have a range of views about privacy. Not only is it personally felt, it is also a soft and multi-disciplined field, involving philosophy, human rights, civil liberties and politics. Yet information privacy turns out to be rather clinical, written in to neatly sidestep philosophical and moral mine fields. This should make privacy law accessible to a wider audience, and yet its implications for IT remain misunderstood by many."
