Google said that it has protected the data it gain through its Street View Wi-Fi snooping, but will struggle a class-action lawsuit's demand that it turn over more information, court documents shows.

In a couple of filings to an Oregon central court, Google said that it has copied all the data obtain by its Street View vehicles, passed that data to iSEC Partners, a San Francisco-based information sanctuary ask firm, and locked the hard drives holding the imitative information in a secure.

Google's statement came on the heels of a request for a provisional restraining orders that if granted would need the company to keep the data. Formerly, Google had said it wanted to remove the data "as soon as possible."

The court case was filed by an Oregon woman and a Washington state man after Google confess May 14 that its photo-snapping vehicles had snatched data from insecure wireless networks.

Quite a few European countries' data privacy authorities have commenced investigations into Google's actions. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been request to examine Google by the user group Consumer Watchdog.