Australia investigates Google over privacy...

Australia announced a police investigation into Google amid accusations the internet giant breached privacy laws, becoming at least the second country to investigate the company's Street View mapping services.

The Australian investigation comes as more regulators and consumers watchdogs around the world are complaining that Google does not take people's privacy seriously enough. 

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The probe follows questions over whether Google employees taking photographs for the company's Street View mapping service illegally collected private information from wireless networks.

Last month, Google acknowledged it had mistakenly collected fragments of data over public Wi-Fi networks in more than 30 countries while it was taking pictures of neighbourhoods for the Street View feature. Google said it discovered the problem after German regulators launched an inquiry into the matter. Full story...

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