According to the New York Times, at least nine people who appear to be engineers employed by Google, including one whose job was to review the data collection program associated with the search engine’s street mapping project, said they were not aware of the personal data being collected by the Street View vehicles because it wasn’t their job or they didn’t read the documentation.

As the author notes, for a company that “has long prided itself on not being a conventional company” the “not my job” rhetoric is a fairly common, even conventional, bureaucratic line.  It’s also stunningly similar to Google’s response to requests to work with creators to find solutions to rampant infringement online: not our problem, not our job to fix it.