[zaroth]

What a bizarre process. So if these 22 people can't find their MAC in the .pcap then it's case closed? What if they weren't home at the time, and it's just beacons? So only if they happened to be streaming a video from Netflix at the time, causing enough continuous traffic load so that some actual L3 packets pop up in the scan, only then do we get to squeeze some billions from Larry and Sergey?

Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea of sending a strong signal to companies that driving a van up to my house and pcap'ing my packets is not acceptable. But I do hope it's proportionate. $1 per byte sounds about right, so 200GB = $200B. Don't worry, we can let them pay over 100 years. Oh wait, there's already a name for that. Taxes.

At least this will set a great precedent for suing the NSA next, right?

[icebraining]

What if they weren't home at the time, and it's just beacons?

Then Google didn't actually capture their private data, no? Kinda makes it hard to allege damages.