When you use a location-enabled Google service, we may collect and process information about your actual location, like GPS signals sent by a mobile device. We may also use various technologies to determine location, such as sensor data from your device that may, for example, provide information on nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers. " [emphasis mine]
I don't know about the mechanisms of how your iPod would register the nearest wifi sources, but ..... I would be concerned, yeah.
for that matter, I'm now concerned that I log onto my gmail account on my laptop, using wifi. frak.
ETA: I guess I'm not sure what a "location-enabled Google service" is, and whether it would just be something like google maps, or whether it would include gmail. They don't clarify in the privacy policy, but to be honest at this point I trust google as far as I can throw them.
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Date: 2012-02-29 04:54 am (UTC)"Location information
When you use a location-enabled Google service, we may collect and process information about your actual location, like GPS signals sent by a mobile device. We may also use various technologies to determine location, such as sensor data from your device that may, for example, provide information on nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers. " [emphasis mine]
I don't know about the mechanisms of how your iPod would register the nearest wifi sources, but ..... I would be concerned, yeah.
for that matter, I'm now concerned that I log onto my gmail account on my laptop, using wifi. frak.
ETA: I guess I'm not sure what a "location-enabled Google service" is, and whether it would just be something like google maps, or whether it would include gmail. They don't clarify in the privacy policy, but to be honest at this point I trust google as far as I can throw them.