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PBS NewsHour segment about the Google Street View case (Apr. 16, 2012) - YouTube
This news segment about the Google Street View matter provides a very accessible discussion of both the technology and some of the legal issues involved. Pay special attention to the portion from 03:50 to 05:50, and from 08:44 to the end.
The discussion of European law throughout the segment is not super relevant to the legal issues involved in a U.S. case interpreting U.S. law; however, it's interesting for policy purposes as a point of comparison.
A lot of this segment (particularly the portions outside of the parts I say to pay special attention to) is devoted to speculation about Google's reasons for gathering WiFi "payload data" with the Street View vehicles. That's all it is: speculation. Since I worked on this case as part of Google's team of outside counsel back when I was a practicing attorney, I'm admittedly not a neutral observer. That said, when this segment was recorded in April of 2012, the people being interviewed didn't have the benefit of all the facts (the way, say, Google's attorneys did); hence the speculation.
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