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I thought it was common knowledge, but apparently it's not: whether it's Google itself doing the gathering or subcontracted data vendors, various parties in North America have been gathering information about wireless networks, public and private, for years now. In fact, "location services" such as those provided by Google Maps (via the iPhone or the Firefox browser, which has its own built-in location services) depend on it.
A semi-funny, semi-creepy illustration that this is happening is provided by some friends of mine. They moved to Hawai‘i from San Francisco about 8 months ago and took their wireless hub with them. The part of the big island they're on has pretty poor cellular coverage, so iPhones end up accessing the internet through their wireless network. When you use Google Maps or Yelp when the cellular network is operational, they correctly place you somewhere around Hilo. When the cellular network can't be reached and the phones are relying on the wireless network, the same apps think you're back in their old home in San Francisco! Even though the iPhones have GPS units built into them, it's much easier to grab the MAC address and send it back to Google, so it has priority over GPS data.
I don't know that Google is being particularly clandestine about this, but they certainly aren't advertising it. For my friends, this is annoying, because they can't update the location of their wireless network, which makes using their iPhones a real pain at times. Also note that this is something specific to Google and not Apple -- anyone with an Android-based handset (and the Google Maps apps on Windows Mobile and Blackberry, for all I know) would have the same problem.
And while this may seem disturbing, keep in mind that the technology necessary to create these kinds of WLAN maps is available to everyone. By design, 802.11 leaks enough information to tie a particular piece of networking gear to a particular place, and in densely-packed urban environments, it's always going to be easy to collect WLAN information.
#1 Posted by Forrest L Norvell, CJR on Fri 23 Apr 2010 at 07:04 PM