A "significant number" of U.S. states will be conducting an investigation into Google's gathering of personal data via wireless networks, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday.
In a statement Blumenthal said his office would be leading a probe into Google's gathering of information about the data being transferred over unsecured wireless networks with its Street View cars --
"which Google has said was inadvertent," reports
MarketWatch. Google's Street
View cars gather data, including photos, for the company's Internet mapping services.
"Last month, Google disclosed that the cars had also been gathering so-called 'payload' data about the
sites being visited over wireless networks, due to a software glitch." Blumenthal said that "more than 30 states" participated in a recent conference call held to discuss the Google investigation.
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