More than 30 states have accused the search giant of using its Street View cars to collect personal information via Wi-Fi

Google is close to reaching an agreement with more than 30 U.S. states who had accused the search giant of using its Street View cars to collect Wi-Fi data not. The company pays about $ 7 million in total, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The agreement, which was revealed by the All Things D technology blog, is close to being finalized and should be announced next week. The amount would be too small for Google, which had $ 50 billion in sales last year.

Richard Blumenthal Connecticut Attorney General has launched an investigation into multi-state Google Wi-Fi data collection in 2010, when it appeared that the Street View cars collected personal information unsecured Wi-Fi . Blumenthal called the news "deeply disturbing."

The research firm opposite data were collected by mistake and never do anything with the data. Eric Schmidt said that the issue was. "No harm, no foul" The Federal Communications Commission has conducted a survey of 17 months on the issue and concluded that Google had not violated the law, but had obstructed investigations.
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