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Re:Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Lo... by eli on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @11:03AM (#7347709)
I don't think "en masse" is a fair way to describe a handful of stray packets per AP as the car drove by.
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Re:Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Lo... by scott_karana on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @05:02PM (#7350264)
200 GB is a "handful"?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/03/googles-wi-fi...

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Re:Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Lo... by eli on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @05:40PM (#7350469)
shrug

That doesn't sound like very much data for a fleet of vehicles to collect over the course of a few years. Pretty sure it was just a handful of packets per (unencrypted) access point, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

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