The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) confirmed on Wednesday that it is investigating whether Google broke any federal eavesdropping laws when collecting data for its controversial Street View mapping service. The investigation stems from Google's disclosure recently that its Street View cars collected passwords, e-mails and other personal information from unprotected residential wireless networks, the FCC said...Google said that it has since removed the code and stopped collecting any Wi-Fi data. The company's disclosure has prompted regulators in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and South Korea, to launch investigations into the matter...The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which in May had asked the FCC for an investigation into Google's Street View data collection, today welcomed the investigation...Google reiterated what it has been saying since the controversy first began. "We are profoundly sorry for having mistakenly collected payload data from unencrypted networks"...