What about _mapmeplease to opt in.
Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
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Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#32How about you only opt-in people who add "_map" to their SSID?
Because that would make their service completely useless, because not enough people would opt-in. I think ideally they should have some easier way to opt-out -- maybe submit your SSID/BSSID for removal directly to Google.
Yes, I shall submit "linksys".
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#33Ehh... It's pretty fucking ridiculous that I should have to change my networks SSID in order to NOT be mapped. What if I had some established nomenclature. My old SSID was Nikola with a password some variant of Tesla... Nikola_nomap just doesn't have the same spark.
Stop broadcasting a unique identifier unencrypted on a public unliscensed band into the middle of your street, then.
Google is doing nothing wrong here.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#34How about simply "fuck off Google". We shouldn't have to do that and then reconfigure our piles of client devices. Also isn't it about as useful as the do not track header? What about other vendors mapping it and data sense etc? I moan on behalf of others as my network is ethernet due to things like this.
How about you "fuck off". This opt-out shouldn't even be an option, listing public APs is well within everyone's rights.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#35No. If there's someone on the street outside my home whose lost and can't get a GPS signal, I want them to stay lost!
Even though I'm happy with my AP broadcasting it's identity in the clear, the idea that anyone else might find that useful is just wrong and infringes on my privacy or something.
Screw those guys!
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#36I keep my SSID hidden. Not sure if that "blocks" Google from using it or not.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you even read what this does? It's used to aid geopositioning. No data from the network is logged, other than its SSID/MAC address and its approximate location.
Except for that one small time in Europe when they "accidentally" captured live traffic en masse.. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/05/17/google-admits-s...
What's with the scare quotes? Are you suggesting it was not an accident?
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#38Would it be possible to randomize the (non-vendor part of) the AP's MAC address periodically to defeat this? Perhaps getting AP manufacturers to add this as a feature would be difficult, though.
Easy enough with DD-WRT I imagine, on most NICs you can set an arbitrary MAC. Sadly didn't work for the pile of Chinese ones I have that all use the same one.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#39Would it be possible to randomize the (non-vendor part of) the AP's MAC address periodically to defeat this? Perhaps getting AP manufacturers to add this as a feature would be difficult, though.
That would be semi-trivial seeing as how changing your mac is easy with Linux and many of the access points run Linux. The hard part would be reconnecting all of the clients each time you change the mac address.
Re: Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
#40Once upon a time the default privacy model used to be "opt-in". Which then became "opt-out" thanks in large parts to Google. Of course it helped that very few "lay people" take active steps to opt-out. It appears "rename and opt-out" is the latest model. I'm guessing even fewer lay users will take this step. Technically this allows Google to claim it gives people an easy way to opt out, but in practice nothing much i…
Also once upon a time people knew what they were talking about before launching into a nonsensical speech filled with privacy cliches.
They are mapping public WiFi APs, public data, it's well within their right and that of other to do so. Offering an opt-out is just going over and beyond to appease the stubbornly misinformed.