Australian Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy called the it the " ." The Australian government forced Google to publicly apologize.
France made Google pay a $142,000 fine.
The global consensus is that Google's so-called "snooping" was an invasion of privacy, accidental or otherwise.
Unfortunately, this consensus is based on emotion and knee-jerk populism, rather than facts and reason.
Let's try something different. Let's analyze what actually happened.