The report is redacted, meaning names of individuals are blacked out, but it sheds light on new details and elicits more questions about  the privacy controversy -- one of many the search and advertising giant seems to constantly find itself enmeshed.

For instance, that the personal data it collected -- such as e-mails, passwords and search history -- was inadvertent.

Yet the FCC’s report points to an engineer who intentionally wrote code to glean the personal data, told two other engineers what he was doing, and gave the entire Street View team a document that detailed his work on Street View including the logging of payload data.

The engineer, who has not been identified by Google, refused to speak to the FCC and invoked his Fifth Amendment right against potentially incriminating himself to do so.  In its report the FCC refers to the engineer bearing the blunt of the blame as “Engineer Doe.”

According to the FCC’s report: