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"The Google engineer who created a programme that harvested personal data from Wi-Fi networks as part of the Street View project told at least two other colleagues, an official report has said.  The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)&amp;#039;s full report has been released by Google, after the US search giant was fined $25,000 earlier this month for hindering the lengthy probe into Street View.  While the FCC has cleared Google of breaking the law, it did find that one of the firm&amp;#039;s engineers, referred to only as &amp;quot;engineer Doe&amp;quot;, had written a computer programme capable of collecting data from people&amp;#039;s unsecured home wireless networks.  The payload data, including emails and web browsing histories, was harvested as the Street View car photographed areas between 2008 and 2010.  According to the FCC&amp;#039;s report, the engineer told two Google colleagues about the programme, including one senior manager.  &amp;quot;Engineer Doe specifically told two engineers working on the project, including a senior manager, about collecting payload data,&amp;quot; the agency said in its report. &amp;quot;Engineer Doe intended to collect, store and review payload data for possible use in other Google projects.&amp;quot; The report added: &amp;quot;The record also shows that Google&amp;#039;s supervision of the Wi-Fi data collection project was minimal...indeed, it appears that no-one at the company carefully reviewed the substance of Engineer Doe&amp;#039;s software code or the design document.&amp;quot; However, as Engineer Doe had asserted his right not to testify to the investigation, the report said that &amp;quot;significant factual questions bearing... to the Street View project cannot be answered on the record of this investigation&amp;quot;.  Google said that it released the report as it wanted to &amp;quot;put the matter behind us&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;We decided to voluntarily make the entire document available except for the names of individuals,&amp;quot; the company said. &amp;quot;While we disagree with some of the statements made in the document, we agree with the FCC&amp;#039;s conclusion that we did not break the law. We hope that we can now put this matter behind us.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; FTC hires high profile lawyer to oversee Google anti-trust action "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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