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Swiss Say Google's Street View Is Too Revealing
Geneva :: Switzerland | 19 days ago
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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
Privacy watchdog clears Google Street View
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility Britain's privacy watchdog said that Google Street View should not be removed or shut down, dismissing concerns that the service was too invasive. Google's Street View program, which carries panoramic, high-quality photographers of street scenes across...
Tags: Britain, Privacy International, privacy watchdog, data protection, protection act, Google Street View, UK Information Commissioner’s Office, watchdog rejected, Information Commissioner's Office, Information Commissioner Office
Village Mob Thwarts Google Street View Car
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Angry English villagers formed a human chain to thwart the progress of a Google Street View car that was in the process of taking photographs of their homes. Police were called to Broughton in Buckinghamshire, northwest of London, Wednesday after furious...
Tags: West London, Google Street View, Broughton, Buckinghamshire, village blocks, english village, human chain, google maps, Google Earth, critical condition
GOOGLE Street View BUSTS UFO over London!
A group of Nine Mysterious discs have been captured by Google Street View in the east end of London. They appear to be flying in a formation of three rows, attracting the attention of several commuters, in the picture of Wolverley Street. Residents of...
Tags: Google Street View, UFO, London, Capture, Picture, Image
Google Street View forced to remove images
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Google was forced to remove photographs of naked children from its Street View service last night as a row over internet privacy escalated into one about public safety. The Independent on Sunday alerted the internet search giant after finding images...
Tags: Google Street View
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