It's worthwhile to recollect that Google not only downloaded open payload data, they also lied about their reasons for doing so time and again. They went from

It's worthwhile to recollect that Google not only downloaded open payload data, they also lied about their reasons for doing so time and again. They went from "no, we do not collect" --> "oops, we did but only in error" --> "double oops, our software was designed to actually collect that" --> "alright, we'll delete it right now" --> "shucks, we totally forgot to delete it even after 2 years". CJR: Poor coverage of Google's Street View scandal settlement - http://www.cjr.org/164392/show/c0346a3dba4ef72566049d60bf3ac9d8/ http://www.cjr.org/164392/show/c0346a3dba4ef72566049d60bf3ac...?