In a reversal of class , Google now state that it will give European regulators datait on the Q.T. accumulate from open wireless networksover the preceding three years .

A Google spokesman said Thursday that the information should be pass on over within a matter of days . Last workweek , the fellowship see itself in conflict with a privacy governor at the German city of Hamburg , who wanted admission to the information . Google said that it was n’t sure that handing over the information would be legal .

“ The data protection authorisation in Hamburg has made a number of postulation — including to be give approach to an original hard - drive containing the payload data point , and to a Street View car . We desire to cooperate with these requests — indeed we have already given him access to a car — but as granting access to payload data creates sound challenges in Germany which we need to survey , we are continuing to discuss the appropriate legal and logistic physical process for make the data point available , ” Google said in a statement last calendar week .

Those challenges have apparently now been address .

The society plan to give over data to German , French and Spanish office , according to the Financial Times , ( FT ) whichfirst reported this late developmenton Thursday .

Google will publish a limited review of its privacy practice session sometime within the next month , and also be after to publish the findings of an external audit into its Wi - Fi stag operations , the FT reports . “ We screwed up . Let ’s be very cleared about that , ” Google CEO Eric Schmidt tell the newspaper .

The lookup engine company has never completely explained how its Street View vehicles ended up recording all kinds of data point sent over open wireless networks , include e - mail subject matter and data from Web page . In aMay 14 web log post , the company said that an engineer added the functionality to a 2006 genus Beta translation of its Street View software and that , somehow , it was never taken out when the intersection went live .

Google had been collecting some data point about wireless connection to help improve its geo - placement products , but , until May , it had denied that it was sniffing the sensitive “ payload ” datum of these networks .

Since then , it ’s come under the scrutiny of U.S. and international regulator and been the target of at least six division activity lawsuits .