[emddudley]

Ask Google about their Street View wardriving project... an appeals court ruled that it violated the Wiretap Act.

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/threatlevel_0401_streetview/

[anigbrowl]

That was quite different though, because Google was (inadvertently) recording packet data as well as SSIDs. It's right there in the 3rd paragraph.