Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is demanding that Google provide his office with information about any data the company collected from the state's residents and businesses without permission. Google is coming under fire from regulators worldwide over whether the company violated people's privacy with its data collection practices. The company said last month it mistakenly gathered information from open wireless networks while it was capturing images of streets and houses for its Street View service, a product that lets users view photographs of an area online. 'Consumers and businesses rightly expect Google to respect their privacy, not invade it by vacuuming up confidential data,' Blumenthal said in a statement e-mailed from his office Monday. If personal data was collected from Internet connections, Google may have broken privacy laws, he said. The attorney general's office sent a letter to Google on May 27 requesting the data and asked that the company respond within 10 days of receiving it. The letter, addressed to Google's deputy general counsel Matt Sucherman, asked for the time period that the company's Street View cars collected information from wireless networks in Connecticut and for the names of affected towns. The state also asked for information on Google's data collection equipment and why it gathered information from Web connections. 'We're working with the relevant authorities to answer their questions and concerns,' Christine Chen, a spokeswoman for Google, said in an e-mailed statement. An Oregon judge has ordered the company turn over similar data collected there, including any e-mails, files or digital phone records, according to court documents. Google is also giving data to regulators in Germany, France and Spain. The Federal Trade Commission has said it will take a 'very, very close look' at Google's data gathering. With assistance from Brian Womack in San Francisco and Douglas MacMillan in New York. 