frontpage - 11:53 am on Jul 1, 2011 (gmt 0)

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company apologized and maintains it never used the data. It also argues it did nothing illegal because the Wi-Fi data was publicly available like radio transmissions. U.S. District Court Judge James Ware rejected that argument late Wednesday, saying Internet data transmitted wirelessly have the same privacy protections as cell phone conversations.

[washingtonpost.com...]