Google: Oops, we spied on your Wi-Fi

In a blog post, the company said it has parked its Street View cars and stopped collecting data after it realized that it has been inadvertently collecting data about people's online activities from unsecured Wi-Fi networks over the past four years.

Google said that it recently discovered it has accumulated about 600 gigabytes of data transmitted over public Wi-Fi networks in more than 30 countries.

The code that was written to collect the data was part of an experimental Wi-Fi project started in 2006.