Why Google should be allowed to 'harvest' your Wi-Fi data

21.04.2012

Australian Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy called the it the " ." The Australian government forced Google to publicly apologize.

France made Google pay a $142,000 fine.

The global consensus is that Google's so-called "snooping" was an invasion of privacy, accidental or otherwise.

Unfortunately, this consensus is based on emotion and knee-jerk populism, rather than facts and reason.

Let's try something different. Let's analyze what actually happened.