{"id":13848,"date":"2014-10-07T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13848"},"modified":"2014-10-07T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T10:50:00","slug":"and-if-you-append-_nomap-to-your-street-address-google-wont-rifle-through-your-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/07\/and-if-you-append-_nomap-to-your-street-address-google-wont-rifle-through-your-mailbox\/","title":{"rendered":"And If You Append _nomap To Your Street Address, Google Won&#8217;t Rifle Through Your Mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Google Announces \u201c_nomap\u201d WiFi Opt-out Option, Wants Other Location Providers To Go Along<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As promised, Google has announced a way for WiFi router owners to stop Google from including them in the company\u2019s location database.<\/p>\n<p>The opt-out requires a change in the name of the wireless network (the SSID) to include _nomap at the end of the name. In other words, if your wireless network is named \u201cMcGeehome,\u201d you\u2019d need to rename that to \u201cMcGeehome_nomap.\u201d (And frankly, I\u2019d prefer you use your own last name while you\u2019re at it.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Google is thoughtfully allowing you to change your internal naming of your personal property to keep Google from using it for its own data collection and profit.<\/p>\n<p>Because your property and information  belongs to Google unless you explicitly say it does not.  <em>Even if you don&#8217;t use Google.<\/em>  Because anything Google can dig up, it can use.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\/status\/519337257224794112\" target=\"_blank\">tweet<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Announces \u201c_nomap\u201d WiFi Opt-out Option, Wants Other Location Providers To Go Along: As promised, Google has announced a way for WiFi router owners to stop Google from including them in the company\u2019s location database. The opt-out requires a change in the name of the wireless network (the SSID) to include _nomap at the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13849,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions\/13849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}