Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said this week that he "misspoke" when he urged people who didn't like Google's Street View product to simply move.

"As you can see from the unedited interview, my comments were made during a fairly long back and forth on privacy," Schmidt said in a statement. "I clearly misspoke. If you are worried about Street View and want your house removed please contact Google and we will remove it."

Schmidt taped an appearance on CNN's "Parker Spitzer" Friday afternoon, which aired later that day. Though the full interview reportedly lasted about 25 minutes, the edited version that made it to air was only a few minutes. In that interview, Schmidt discussed how long Google kept peoples' data, his thoughts on the economic recovery, recent reports about tax havens it uses, and a few other things; nothing particularly newsworthy.

In the unedited version, however, Schmidt apparently touched briefly on the privacy concerns with its Street View photographs.

"Street View, we drive exactly once," Schmidt said, according to MarketWatch. "So, you can just move, right?"

A Google spokesperson later told MarketWatch that Schmidt was trying to make the point that the "Street View service provides only a static picture in time, and doesn't provide real-time imagery or provide any information about where people are."

Google's captures its 360-degree photos via cameras attached to special vehicles that drive down public streets. The company said recently that the feature is available on all seven continents, including Antarctica.

Not everyone is eager to welcome Google's Street View cameras into their communities. In late September, the Czech Republic banned Google from expanding Street View beyond Prague, citing security concerns. German officials have also expressed concern; Google recently said that 240,000 Germans - or about 2.89 percent - have opted out of having their homes included in Street View.

Google stressed that the ability to opt-out of Street View exists in all markets. To report a concern, locate the offending image in Street View, click "report a problem" in the bottom left of the image window, complete the form, and click "submit."

Schmidt's CNN comments occured the same day that Google admitted that equipment attached to its Street View cars had collected entire e-mails, URLs, and passwords from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. Though not related to its Street View service, the equipment was attached to Street View cars in order to collect data that would help improve Google location-based services. In the wake of the Wi-Fi data sniffing controversy, that equipment has been removed from the vehicles, according to Google.