Google’s virtual endeavor called the Street View service recently suffered a massive blow.
Tuesday, the 3rd of August, saw Google’s office in Korea being ransacked by the South Korean police following an investigation that suspected Google of illegally accumulating and storing data from various wireless networks.

The online biggie has already been slapped lawsuits in several other countries with illegal collection of private wireless data to assist its Street View initiative. Started in 2006; the basic feature of Street View allows users to conveniently view street panoramas and take on virtual walks via Google Maps. Starting late in 2009, Google dispatched cars that carried cameras atop that cruised along the country roads capturing different milieus and settings.

Now according to a statement made by the Cyber Terror Response Center of the Korean National Police Agency, the vehicles, while clicking through the various locales, may have illegitimately got a hold of valuable personal data present on wireless networks.

“We will investigate Google Korea officials and scrutinize the data we confiscated today”

to see whether the company violated the country’s laws on communications and privacy, it said.

“We intend to find out what kinds of data they have collected and how much,”

said the response center.

“We will try to retrieve all the original data illegally collected and stored through domestic Wi-Fi networks from the Google headquarters.”

Now that’s an unusual line to come by about Google.

Google, on the other side, confirmed about the investigation taking place and has vowed absolute co-operation. The search engine giant states the entire act as ‘unintentional’ and a solution in a bid to respond to Google’s competitor in Korea, Daum; running a famous service parallel to Street View. Google aims to take this service to Germany prior to the end of the year.

This dreadful scenario coming in after the recent tentative decision to shut down Google Wave.

Are we witnessing the downfall of the world’s biggest online company?