Australia announced a formal investigation on Google, whether the Internet giant illegally collect personal information from their wireless networks.Australia became the second country to investigate mapping services 'Street View' of the Internet giant. Autralia criminal investigation comes as more and more regulators, and communities throughout the world complaining about Google not pay attention to privacy seriously.
On the other hand, Google said that the privacy of users is the highest priority of the company.
Last month, Google has mistakenly admitted publicly gather some data from Wi-Fi network in over 30 countries where you take a picture of the population through the Street View feature.
Google said it discovered the problem after German regulators launched an investigation into the matter. That same month, the U.S. Justice Commission chief John Coyers sent a letter to Google and Facebook are asking them to cooperate regarding the privacy rules.
Australian Party questioned whether Google workers use the image of the mapping services that violate privacy laws in the country. "Highlights of this issue has increased in public areas, the department I saw there were issues of substance that increases the police investigation," said Australian Federal Attorney General Robert McClelland told journalists in Melbourne.
"This is a mistake," said Google's party was the case in Australia. "We talked to the authorities to answer all the questions they ask."
Services 'Street View' provides a picture taken on the population using the Google camera. This service has been controversial in Germany and several countries in which privacy groups and some governments fear that people will be recorded without approval first, or be seen to be somewhere where they do not want others to know about it.
Last month, the Australian Ministry of Communications, Stephen Conroy said Google is responsible for 'the largest in the history of privacy violations'.
