The engineer who created this system is completely irrelevant since the production implementation of Street View collected all data. The fault lies solely with

The engineer who created this system is completely irrelevant since the production implementation of Street View collected all data. The fault lies solely with Google whether by intent, lack of legal or legal ethics advice, lack of technical oversight, or management incompetence etc. This also seems to be the regulator's view. However, Google itself and, of course, the media are quite happy to muddy the waters with a bit of "gone rogue" nonsense, though for differing reasons.