Close on the heels of Google’s Friday revelation that it had inadvertently spied on some Wi-Fi users, several investigations have been initiated against the company in Europe, and at least one lawsuit has been filed in the US.

Google had admitted in its Friday blog post that it had accidentally collected 600GB of private data from homes as well as businesses, while clicking images for its Street View service. The data, collected over a period of last three years, pertains to as many as 30 countries.

Google’s acceptance of its supposedly unintentional collection of data came after criminal investigations were launched against the company by data protection officials in Hamburg, Germany.

The revelation by Google has led authorities in France, Italy and Spain to ascertain whether the company had broken their national data laws. Meanwhile, some data protection authorities in the UK, Ireland, Austria, and Denmark, have asked Google to destroy the data collected.

Further, as per a TechEye. net report, two Pacific Northwest residents - Vicki Van Valin and Neil Mertz – Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit against Google, in an Oregon district court, accusing the company of violation of their privacy.

According to the lawsuit, Google willfully detected, obtained and stored private data from personal Wi-Fi hotspots as its Street View vehicles, equipped with cameras and ‘packet sniffers’ drove around Oregon neighborhoods.