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Google faces court action over Street View
Bern :: Switzerland | 7 days ago
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The federal data protection commissioner, Hanspeter Thür, said on Friday he was bringing a case against Google at the Federal Administrative Court to force the company to make changes to its application. He explained that Google had rejected many of the...
Tags: street view, Switzerland, Google, Hanspeter Thür, view service, data protection, Bern, Data privacy, Information privacy, Privacy, Thￃﾼr, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Street View
Switzerland takes Google to court
Web search giant Google faces a court case in Switzerland because of privacy concerns over its Street View service. The application allows a 360-degree view of any street-level location. "Numerous faces and vehicle number plates are not made sufficiently...
Tags: street view, causes, Swaziland, Siteki, Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Street View, Hanspeter Thuer, Switzerland
Swiss privacy czar sues Google
Bern :: Switzerland | 10 days ago
Credibility Internet giant Google hasn't done enough to safeguard the privacy of those who appear in its Street View mapping system, a Swiss official says. Switzerland's federal data protection commissioner, Hanspeter Thur, said Friday he is suing Google to force...
Tags: Google, street view, Hanspeter Thur, Herr Thur, Switzerland, Bern, Google Street View, Thur, Swissinfo, Google Maps, Google Earth, Rhine basin, Technology Internet
Google Maps Navigation is solid, but about that voice
Brookline :: MA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility It was published just a day after Google announced Google Maps Navigation. Screen shots from the Google Maps Navigation application. Andy Ihnatko Some of the reader responses struck the same tone: �Nice piece! Too bad it�s all completely irrelevant,...
Tags: Google Maps Navigation, maps navigators, Google Nav, Google Street View, Google Latitude, Magic Voice, maps data, nav app, GPS, Brookline, Cloud clients, Google, Android, TomTom, IPhone, Smartphones, Google Maps, Technology Internet
Swiss Say Google's Street View Is Too Revealing
Geneva :: Switzerland | 12 days ago
Credibility Swiss officials said Friday that they had sued Google to try to require it to tighten privacy safeguards on its Street View online service. It is the latest of a series of European objections to the company's handling of personal information.
Tags: street view, Switzerland, privacy watchdog, google street, Geneva, Data privacy, Google, Privacy, Information privacy, Criticism of Google, Technology Internet, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Street View, Human rights, Keyhole Markup Language, World Wide Web
Consumer borrowing in Canada 'defying gravity'
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Heating costs should fall this winter for customers who heat their homes with natural gas, thanks to rising supply and falling demand. Nissan's new electric car will be launched in Canada in 2011, beginning with British Columbia, the company announced...
Tags: Transport Canada, salvat army, canadians city, Google Street View, food banks, Canadians, Salvation Army, canadians need, privacy commissioner, annual reporting
Google Street View gets on its bike and heads off-road
Ipswich :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility Hundreds of thousands of people logged on to Street View when it went live earlier this year. But campaigners began a legal action against it, claiming that the images were an invasion of privacy...Sceptics warned yesterday that any abuses of the service...
Tags: Google Street View
'Google not violating privacy laws'
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 months ago
Credibility Japan's government has found that Google's Street View service does not violate privacy laws if the US Internet giant takes safeguards such as blurring people's faces and car licence plates. Street View, where car-mounted cameras take 360-degree footage...
Tags: Google Street View, view service, Japan
Google Street View blacked out in Greece
Tōkyō :: Japan | 6 months ago
Credibility Internet giant Google has been stopped from gathering images in Greek cities for its Street View service until it provides further guarantees about privacy. Launched in the U.S. two years ago, Street View provides users with access to 3-D "pedestrian's-eye"...
Tags: Japanese, Google Street View, Google Earth, Greece, privacy complaints, Honda Motor Co., Tokyo Metropolitan Police
Google Street View cars banned from Greece
Athens :: Greece | 6 months ago
Credibility Highlighting a growing fear among Greeks of the threat posed by "creeping" new technologies, Athens's data protection agency has prohibited vehicles manned by Google 's Street View drivers from the country. The all-powerful watchdog said the search engine...
Tags: Greece, Google Inc., Google Street View, Google Maps, additional information, view service
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