Why facebook/twitter/yahoo/micro$oft/etc aren't under fire even though they do steal personal info so much.
Even the facebook privacy accident is enough to be mad at it.

Slashdot without goatse links isn't not just the same anymore, So please thank me for preserving it as is.

I couldn't think of a better company. They are the drive force behind so many things. For example street view, I couldn't have imaged being able to virtually travel the streets within pretty much any major town in the world. BTW, there is a site that helps you travel virtually using street view.

This wifi scandal, as some name it, is really nonsense.
They just collected the location and strength of the wifi hotspots.
The PCWorld magazine has detailed article on this.