WiGLE in the News - Ars Technica

[bobzilla]

WiGLE in Ars. Starts a bit sensational, but then gets rational:

It's also not clear just how big the privacy issue even is. The MAC addresses of stationary Wi-Fi access points are not in any meaningful sense "private"—they're broadcast to the world, and the only information they can communicate is the device or chipset's manufacturer.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2 ... ncerns.ars

[Legodude]

I've also been thinking about this topic. Wigle has a public database collected by the public but there is not outcry here.