So, there has been a fair amount of talk about Google’s Street View faux pas. Apparently, the data breach was more significant than some had anticipated. Apparently, among the bits and pieces of data collected were full emails!.
Perhaps more interesting is a hack developed by Samy Kamkar that uses MAC address information collected by Google to maliciously (and extremely accurately) determine a user’s geographical coordinates. Kamkar has a video demonstrating this hack (and the extent of information collected by Google’s Street View rovers here.