Google Street View is in trouble with authorities again. This time, one of its vehicles was halted and searched yesterday near Paris.

Google’s Street View service became highly controversial when Germany learned that GoogleGoogle was (inadvertently, it claims) collecting publicly broadcasted SSID information and MAC addresses from Wi-Fi networks in the country.

According to Yann Padova, secretary general of the French National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties (CNIL), the search was conducted to “verify that they stopped collecting Wi-Fi data.” Furthermore, French regulators aren’t too happy about the fact that Google resumed taking photos around France before it was determined whether the company complied with the orders to limit Street View data collection. CNIL said it had inspected two other Google cars, but wouldn’t say what the inspectors found.

From the very beginning of the Street View service, Google has maintained the position that photographing buildings from the street is perfectly legal, but a swarm of complaints from people asking to have their faces, license plates or entire houses removed from the service has created a huge problem from the company. The Wi-Fi collection incident caused even more concern, and Google’s Street View practices have been investigated in several European countries, AustraliaAustralia and the U.S.

Judging by this latest incident, the controversy won’t disappear quietly; it will take a while for the public and regulators to start trusting Google again.