Google's Intrusive Street View Data Collection Is Worse Than You Thought

    The revelation that Google's Street View vans were collecting all kinds of private data was disconcerting. This is more so: The FCC's investigation into the program "was left unresolved because a critical participant, the Google engineer in charge of the project, cited his Fifth Amendment right and declined to talk."

    Matt Buchanan
    by Matt Buchanan

    BuzzFeed Staff

    Google's Intrusive Street View Data Collection Is Worse Than You Thought

    nytimes.com

    The revelation that Google's Street View vans were collecting all kinds of private data was disconcerting. This is more so: The FCC's investigation into the program "was left unresolved because a critical participant, the Google engineer in charge of the project, cited his Fifth Amendment right and declined to talk."