{"id":3697,"date":"2010-05-31T18:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T18:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2010-05-31T18:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T18:40:42","slug":"google_has_mapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"Google has mapped every WiFi network in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/google\/7786255\/Google-has-mapped-every-WiFi-network-in-Britain.html\">Duncan Gardham<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Google has mapped every wireless network in Britain in order to use the information for commercial purposes, it has emerged.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nEvery WiFi wireless router \u2013 the device that links most computer owners to the internet &#8211; in every home has been entered into a Google database.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe information was collected by radio aerials on their Street View cars, which have now photographed almost every home in the country.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe data is then used on Google&#8217;s Maps for Mobile application to locate mobile phones such as iPhones in order for users to access information relevant to the area such as restaurants, cinemas, theatres, shops and hotels.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe project had remained secret until an inquiry in Germany earlier this month in which Google was forced to admit that it \u201cmistakenly\u201d downloaded emails and other data from unsecured wireless networks where they we<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duncan Gardham: Google has mapped every wireless network in Britain in order to use the information for commercial purposes, it has emerged. Every WiFi wireless router \u2013 the device that links most computer owners to the internet &#8211; in every home has been entered into a Google database. The information was collected by radio aerials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,21,14,33,44,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}