Google has been fined €145,000 (around $189,000) for what a regulator called “one of the biggest data protection rules violations known.” The fine comes after it was proved Google’s Street View cars illegally collected data from open Wi-Fi networks between 2008 – 2010. German prosecutors dropped criminal proceedings against the search giant last fall after they failed to find “criminal violations,” but data protection regulators picked up the case in the hope of levying a fine. Google claims its Street View team was unaware of the collection and never looked at the illegal data haul, and Hamburg-based regulator Johannes Caspar tells Bloomberg that Google’s “internal control mechanisms must have severely failed.” The €145,000 fine isn’t likely to upset Google too much. For what was apparently one of German’s most egregious data protection violations ever, the fine represents less than 0.005 percent of Google’s profit last quarter.