Google continues to face the after-effects of its Street view initiative, launched in 2006. This application allows the user to see panoramic images on Google Maps and walk thorough cities, of course virtually.

Following an examination on the search engine’s ‘street view’ mapping service, the Country’s privacy commissioner concluded that it had breached the Australian laws by accumulating private wireless data.

She said that although she was incapable of enforcing sanctions under Australia's Privacy act but he had asked Google to make an apology before the people for the same.

“On the information available I am satisfied that any collection of personal information would have breached the Australian Privacy Act. Collecting personal information in these circumstances is a very serious matter. Australians should reasonably expect that private communications remain private”, she further stated.

Several other Countries are busy examining Google over data leakage and have claimed that Google isn’t very careful about people’s privacy. This claim has been denied by Google.

Australia's Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has articulated the whole matter as the ‘single greatest breach in the history of privacy’.

Google has also agreed to perform a privacy impact assessment and in the near future too, take proper care and to consult the privacy Commissioner Data collection actions in Australia.