Google is cleaning up its mess after the company says it mistakenly collecting browsing data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks as part of its Street View project. The search giant said on Monday that it had deleted all Wi-Fi data collected in Ireland at the request of the Irish Data Protection Authority. The destruction of incorrectly obtained data in Ireland was confirmed by iSec Patners Inc., an independent security consulting firm.

Google says it has also reached out to "regulators in the other relevant countries about how to quickly dispose" of the Wi-Fi data it mistakenly collected. Google has not named the "other relevant countries" it has reached out to, but the company's Wi-Fi data packet snooping could affect many locations included in Street View. In a blog post on Friday, Google said its Street View cars, which take 360-degree photographs for use in Google Maps, have been collecting data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks since 2007.