Scotland Yard Investigates Complaint About Google

Police are investigating a privacy group's complaint that Google broke the law by collecting data from wireless networks, joining several other law-enforcement bodies across the globe that are conducing similar probes.

Countries including Germany, Spain, France, Australia and New Zealand have launched investigations into Google's disclosure that camera-equipped vehicles the company had been using to mark the location of wireless networks and take pictures for its Street View service had been collecting data from non-password protected wireless networks inadvertently for years.