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In May 2009 the Polish GIODO (Polish: Główny Inspektorat Ochrony Danych Osobowych– Chief Inspectorate for the Protection of Personal Data) expressed doubts about Google Street View and its privacy, mostly concerned about the same issues as in other EU countries. However, from 2010 onwards, Google cars appeared on the Polish streets with the ...
In November 2010, vandals in Germany targeted houses that had opted out of Google's Street View. [124] In April 2011, Google announced that it will not expand its Street View program in Germany, but what has already been photographed—around 20 cities' worth of pictures—will remain available. This decision came despite an earlier Berlin ...
It’s not uncommon to scroll through Google Street View and find a home that’s been blurred from view at the request of the homeowner, whether for privacy or security reasons.
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.
Concerns of a regulatory clampdown on how tech and Internet companies handle user data are looming large on a number of companies.
Google Street View, released in the U.S. in 2007, is currently the subject of an ongoing debate about possible infringement on individual privacy. [59] [60] Researchers have argued that Google Street View "facilitate[s] identification and disclosure with more immediacy and less abstraction."
South Korean authorities raided a Google (GOOG) office in Seoul on Tuesday, searching for any user data collected illegally under its controversial Street View project, according to a Reuters report.
Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite ...