Google Wi-Fi Roundup Has Lawyers Chasing Landmark Jackpot

Data from two hard drives locked up in the San Francisco federal courthouse may make or break an effort to hold Google Inc. to account for what privacy advocates call an unprecedented corporate wiretapping case.

If 22 people who sued the company can pinpoint their personal data in a massive cache of communications that Google’s Street View cars captured from private Wi-Fi networks, their lawyers may be able to seek billions of dollars of damages from the the world’s largest search engine owner.