Marius Milner, an engineer at Google, abused his access to Google’s street-mapping vehicles. These cars traversed the roadways of America, taking pictures, which Google would stitch together into a coherent view. Milner programmed Google’s cars to tap the WiFi signals coming from the homes they passed, sweeping up private data, even email correspondence. Instead of cooperating with a government investigation, Google “deliberately impeded and delayed,” earning a fine from the Federal Communications Commission in the process. Indeed, the company refrained from firing Milner. The case hardly
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