> And the worst part in my opinion is the author has no intention of not doing something like this again.

I think the author's intentions are what earn him some sympathy from people around here. He wasn't stealing bank info or passwords. He wasn't tracking their location or scanning their email. He was essentially doing street photography albeit with cameras owned by Apple.

The author may be naive but he's not malicious and that matters to me when I try to come up with some kind of judgement.