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Google gets all Minority Report with Street View
As if you expected anything less Yes, Google is exploring the possibility of slipping ads into Street View, its virtual reality project that seeks to photograph the world and recreate it online.…
Continue reading »Google: online real estate agent
Yesterday when my when my wife and I were driving home after collecting our daughter from a friend’s house, we tuned in to a local CBC radio station, All Points West, getting a breathless, and lengthy, rhapsody on the wonders of Google Sreet View from an estate agent. It was hard-core — superlative on top of superlative, example after example, almost as though he’d been rigorously coached by Google. Which of course, he hadn’t.
Continue reading »Swiss want freeze on Google Street View
The number of complaints launched against advertising company Google’s Street Views is significant, to understate the situation. Its response is always, Problem? What problem?
Continue reading »Swiss privacy commissioner miffed, taking Google to court
Loved by many, Google’s Street View feature remains controversial among users and consumer groups who are concerned about privacy. The latest uproar comes from Switzerland’s Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), which claims Google hasn’t taken sufficient measures to protect citizens’ privacy and is now threatening to take the company to federal court. The Swiss Privacy Commissioner, Hanspeter Thür, has been on Google’s back over Street View since August of this year (when the feature began to be implemented there).
Continue reading »Street View in (kind of) Swiss roll-over
Agrees to extra blurring, but no more Google has agreed to a demand that it apply extra blur to faces and number plates to its Street View service in Switzerland, but has refused to lower the height of its car-mounted spycams.… ?
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