Google's secret Wi-Fi sniffing has encouraged a class-action court case that could force the company to pay up to $10,000 for every time it snatched data from insecure hotspots, court documents prove.

The court case, which was filed by an Oregon woman and a Washington man in a Portland, Ore. federal court on Monday, blames Google of violating Federal isolation and data attainment laws.

"When Google produced its data collection systems on its (GSV) Google Street View vehicles, it incorporated wireless packet sniffers that, in addition to gather the consumer's single or selected Wi-Fi network name SSID information, the single number given to the consumer's hardware used to broadcast a consumer's Wi-Fi signal.

On Tuesday, the same plaintiffs file a motion for a brief restrictive order to avoid Google from deleting the data, a shift the company has said it would make "as soon possible." verbal arguments on the restrictive order are listed for Monday before U.S. District Court Judge.