<< Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) – A car used by Google Inc. to collect data for its Street View mapping service was stopped and searched yesterday near Paris, less than a week after France’s privacy regulator criticized the program’s resumption. >>

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-26/google-street-view-car-halted-searched-outside-paris.html

The main point:

<<The search “was done especially to verify that they stopped collecting Wi-Fi data,” Padova, 43, said in an interview today.>>

The French Commission is stupid because they KNEW Google was going to go back on the roads...

I got a call from Google France: the car hasn't been "halted", it was a scheduled meeting, Google gave to the CNIL a car that has been inspected, then returned.