Google criticised conroy's precious censorship filter, so conroy sicced the coppers on them for sipping broadcast SSIDs/data from wifi access points.
Sitting at my desk here I can see via airodump-ng about 20 unique SSIDs, some of them open. Have I broken the law by listening to this broadcast traffic?
In a perfect world the minister would focus his efforts on educating people on how to properly secure their connections. Of course in a perfect world the minister would have half a clue about his portfolio.

Many Google Street View Privacy Invasions found here: a href="http://www.streetviewfunny.com" Google Street View /a

Because motives may not be what you think. Here I'd say gov'ts are acting to retain their monopoly on spying, and regard go_ogle as a *foreign* SPY AGENCY.

Wouldn't have anything to do with the secure search google is offering their mates - a sort of way around the filter

No. They already did.