Google has released the FCC report into its Street View service to the Los Angeles Times. Following heated debate with the FCC over what information had to be redacted, the document only has personal names removed. The report blames a single rogue engineer for the privacy breach, with his colleagues and managers denying any knowledge that the software collected personal data (also known as payload data) as it logged open Wi-Fi networks. The engineer, who has not been named, declined to speak to the FCC during its investigation.
The report describes how the engineer told two other coders that the software would collect this payload data, as well as including it in a document distributed to the entire Street View team. However, managers...
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