Sky Hook Wireless<\/a> and the technology is scary accurate. They have the following posted policy:<\/p>\n“Skyhook Wireless respects the privacy of your location. Skyhook does not collect personally identifying information, track your location, or share your location without your consent.”<\/p>\n
This is a fine and good, but I can envision a malicious web site that you connect to with your browser, polls your wifi information and locates your position. This can be used for both positive and negative uses. I can imagine the pop-ups on the browser telling me that my favorite restaurant is close or worse that bounty hunter that is after me for jumping bail is notified where I am… \ud83d\ude09 But seriously, this has some amazing possibilities but can easily be mutated into something very Big-Brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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