Google's Street View project sent hundreds of vehicles to photograph city streets around the world so that people using Google Maps could see 360-degree images of the locations.
An internal email recounted a conversation in which the engineer "openly discussed his review of payload data with a senior manager of the Street View project, " the report stated.
"Everyone likes to take a road trip through a national park, " said Evan Rapoport, the Street View project manager, who was inspired by a cross-country camping trip he took after graduation.
During an interview on CNN's "Parker Spitzer, " Schmidt advised people unhappy with Google's Street View project, which raised privacy concerns after Google's vehicles inadvertently collected people's e-mail addresses and passwords over Wi-Fi networks, to move.
Over two months ago, Internet search giant Google acknowledged that in the course of collecting information for its Google Maps Street View project, its roving vehicles inadvertently collected data, such as bits of web pages and email messages, over public, unsecured Wi-Fi networks.
The engineer, whose name hasn't been disclosed, explained his plans to other engineers and at least one senior manager involved with the project, known as Street View, in 2008, the FCC report states.
The project was part of a Street View "refresh" of California that involved a trip down Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast, including the famous Bixby Creek Bridge that spans the mouth of a coast-hugging canyon.
The project is directed by Sebastian Thrun, who also co-founded Google Street View.
Since 2008, the firm's Ground Truth project has mashed together licensed data with information gathered by its own fleet of Street View cars and bicycles.
I've been talking to the man behind Street View, Luc Vincent - via the rather clumsy medium of a Google Hangout - and asking him about the project's ambitions. (Our edited interview is above - but you can see the full version here).
The search firm says that an experimental software project designed to gather data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks was accidentally rolled out along with its Street View initiative, which uses cameras mounted on cars to film streets and buildings.
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