> If your argument is that "displaying" the received transmission is the issue, then Google has done nothing wrong, because the BSSID/GPS database is not "displ

> If your argument is that "displaying" the received transmission is the issue, then Google has done nothing wrong, because the BSSID/GPS database is not "displayed" to any human beings -- the entire system is automated, much like the CSMA and DFS/TPC technologies of wifi itself. Personally I think that is a weak argument since it would make it legally questionable to use a debugger on a device that operates in an explicitly unlicensed part of the radio spectrum. This seems like a plausible argument to me. Google use similar arguments with, say, Gmail: their algorithms can read your mail and use what they learn to show you ads, but individual engineers can't, even for debugging purposes.