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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 ...
In March 2008, Google removed Street View and 360° images of military bases per the Pentagon's request. [10] To protect the privacy and anonymity of individuals, Google selectively blurred photographs containing car license number plates and faces in Google Street View. Users may request further blurring of images that feature them, their ...
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 suffers a legal setback, but good news for exotic dancers. Those stories and more are what's in Wednesday's Market Minute. The Dow Jones industrial average (^DJI) rallied 128 points Tuesday ...
The lower court judge concluded that Google's general privacy policy allowing data collection applied to the case, because the Mountain View, California-based company would have collected the ...
Google Street View, released in the U.S. in 2007, is currently the subject of an ongoing debate about possible infringement on individual privacy. [60] [61] Researchers have argued that Google Street View "facilitate[s] identification and disclosure with more immediacy and less abstraction."
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.