The company revealed Friday that Street View vehicles had been sniff the satisfied of users' Internet connections on open wireless networks, in spite of the company's previous statements to the different.

Google has since exposed that it has been wrongly collecting the content of connections from non-password-protected Wi-Fi networks, the company said in a statement post to its blog Friday .

Google Street View cars are best known for driving around cities and classification snapshots of the area, which are then posted online and included with Google Maps.

Google cars had been sniff some network data – (SSI) Service Set Identifier information and (MAC) Media Access Control addresses that has been used to help the company get a better fix on the locations of things in order to get better its Web products. Google had said that it wasn't sniffing another data sent over the networks, and turned out that this was not true. Google says it was all an error.

Google uncovered its mistake after review its Street View Wi-Fi data at then ask for of the Hamburg & Germany, and data safety authority.

The company will now hire a party to check the software that Street View used and make sure that all potentially receptive data was deleted.

Google's sniff is only a problem for people who use open, unencrypted networks. Google would not have been able to log any understandable data from networks that used encryption technologies such as (WEP) Wired Equivalent Privacy or (WPA) Wi-Fi Protected Access.