Tech Today: Skyhook Wireless Vs. Google

The argument in the article "Competitor Sues Google Over Location Software for Smartphones" highlights the notion that Google stole certain technology patented by Skyhook Wireless. This article is interesting, but the unsettling information I took from it has to do with people and how little privacy technology gives us. Two years ago, CNN teamed up with Skyhook Wireless during elections to show where their correspondents were. At the end of the explanation, one of the anchors exclaimed, "That is creepy!" Although we all may think that we are safe since we don't have the required device to be tracked, WRONG. "Google has notified cellphone makes that they need to use Google's location service as a condition of using Google's Android smartphone operating system." So far all of you with smartphones/android phones, I would make sure you are not currently being tracked, unless you want to...