Connecticut's Google Probe Draws 37 States

The attorney general of Connecticut said 37 states have joined his investigation of Google and that he continues to seek information about whether privacy laws were broken when Google's Street View vehicles collected personal data of unsuspecting Internet users.

In a letter dated July 21 sent to Google, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal seeks specific details about the collection of data, including whether Google sold or used any of the information it collected. He threatened legal recourse if he doesn't get the answers he wants, requesting the response by July 23. Blumenthal also asked Google if it had tested the program, how long the software might have spent collecting data from specific signals and to divulge specific names of employees involved and their explanations. Blumenthal, updating an investigation that began last month, said if Google had been testing the data it should have foreseen the trouble.