Well, basically these are Wi-Fi signals by which, increasingly, telecommunications or the Internet are passing. A previous member asked what Google knew about it and what we knew about it. I think what is surprising about this file is that this is not something that was done intentionally. This is something that was done without Google itself being aware of the fact that they were scooping up the personal information. A program to take this up was written into the code unbeknownst to those in charge of the Street View photographing program.
This then scooped up data only--before everybody gets too worried--if your Wi-Fi transmission was unencrypted and not password-protected. I think there's a story here for individual Canadians about making sure that they use the strongest privacy protection possible.
Google had been totally unaware that it was getting all this information, but this is not the first time Google has been deficient in adhering to privacy standards, either in Canada or in the European Union, or in other countries that have similar standards.
I think it's a tale of what can happen to your personal information through big technology companies that don't take privacy as seriously as they should.