Connecticut Attorney General Richad Blumenthal said Monday that he is investigating Google's collection of personal data from unsecured WiFi networks.
"Driveby data sweeps of unsecured WIFI
networks here would be deeply disturbing, a potentially impermissible, pernicious invasion of privacy," Blumenthal said in a statement. He added that he has asked Google to answer a host of questions,
including "how much and what kind of information it collected, when and where it did so, why, where the data is stored and other information."
Several weeks ago, Google acknowledged that its
Street View cars gathered payload data from WiFi networks that weren't password protected. The admission sparked international outcry as well as several lawsuits.