Stephen Conroy said...
“[If] you were doing a banking transaction, or transmitting personal information, they could have hoovered it up, sucked it up into their machine”.
Clearly not fit in the slightest to be Minister for Communication.
(ALL data between you and a bank is encryted. Always)
As I understand it Google were collecting information on wi-fi networks to aid in location. For example your phone cannot pick up GPS for whatever reason, but by analysing the wi-fi networks it can pick up, and then comparing those against its database of wi-fi networks, Google could give you a good approximation of where you were.