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The office described Google's program as taking pictures "beyond the extent of the ordinary sight from a street", and that it "disproportionately invade citizens' privacy." However, pictures taken before this decision (mostly in 2009) may have remained available online; Google obliged to erase every picture from that period should they be disputed.
There are situations where the censorship of certain sites was subsequently removed. For example, when Google Maps and Google Earth were launched, images of the White House and United States Capitol were blurred out; however, these sites are now uncensored. [3]
A "dead map" is a term often applied to sensitive government maps that show the location of top secret facilities and other highly sensitive installations within a country. Russia, the United States and Great Britain all have such maps. Google Earth censors places that may be of special security concern. The following is a selection of such ...
Google has also been implicated in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González, a case before the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's national court) and the European Court of Justice, which required Google to comply with the European privacy laws (i.e., the Data Protection Directive) and to allow users to be forgotten when operating in the ...
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
Google Street View is the most comprehensive street view service in the world. It provides street view for more than 85 countries worldwide. Bee Maps, powered by Hivemapper is the fastest growing mapping company in the world, mapping 29% of the world (until November 2024). It provides high-quality commercial street level imagery and road ...
In March 2007, the lower-resolution satellite imagery on Google Maps showing post-Hurricane Katrina damage in Louisiana, US, was allegedly replaced with higher resolution images from before the storm. [6] Google's official blog post in April revealed that the imagery was still available in KML format on Google Earth or Google Maps. [7] [8] [9]
Google's (GOOG) navigation tool has returned to the iPhone, months after Apple's (AAPL) home-grown mapping service flopped, prompting user complaints, the firing of an executive and a public ...