SMH joins the Google privacy fight – a month late

Tim Burrowes

June 15, 2010 5:43

Here’s a very odd thing. Remember how, just over a month ago, Google admitted that its Streetview cars had also been capturing wifi data?

Media minister Stephen Conroy got quite cross about it three weeks ago.

Yesterday, for no immediately apparent reason, the Sydney Morning Herald joined the fray, with an editorial headlined “Google’s dirty secret”, opining that the search giant “has been caught out badly”.

Oddly, the editorial does not appear online, although the one printed above it, on another topic, does.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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2 COMMENTS

Mitch Malone 15 Jun 10

Maybe they, like everyone else, don’t really care?

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MiSociety 16 Jun 10

Oh they care alright – the printed media care very much that they are losing out to online and have been for a long time even with fudging their numbers. Is it possible they may have been scare mongering – ooh watch out for Google they are in your street watching you.

No it’s not correct what Google has done but in today’s world where everyone everywhere can be on someone’s candid camera at anytime maybe we should all start wearing burkas

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