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that explains why the router I used in Hong Kong, and have re-activated here in Milton Keynes has cause Latitude to show I am in HK, near enough to where it was last used November2010...

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that explains why the router I used in Hong Kong, and have re-activated here in Milton Keynes has cause Latitude to show I am in HK, near enough to where it was last used November2010...

More people should do this kind of thing, just to mess up the database.

I will be doing so shortly once I've got one more DSL modem than I need, so I can periodically rotate 3 modems between 2 far-apart places...

was anyone asked if they could be included on a post code database, used for location services? I think not, the principle is the same, Google just got smart. Really nothing to worry about., I certainly dont.

I am not on the postcode database. The postcode of my house is.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/27/google_still...

They're still at it

Just read most of this thread, seeing as you woke it up and for a week now I've had an Android phone which I've used with "Navigation". (Looks as though that's going to be another can of worms like this, but better in a new thread).

This post made me chuckle. Toddling off to HK and back isn't an easy security measure for me .

How they find a mac address is easy !!!
Every time you log onto a wifi your phone or computer transmits your mac address assoicated to the ip address that the DHCP server just assigned you when connected to a wifi