Google doesn’t blur Street View enough, says Switzerland
The Swiss data protection authority is to take Google to court over its photographic mapping service Street View. The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) in Switzerland has reportedly made repeat complaints at Google‘s unwillingness to alter its photographing process to spare the identity of its citizens.
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Hanspeter Thuer of the FDPIC said "In the Street View service, which has been online since mid August 2009, numerous faces and vehicle number plates are not made sufficiently unrecognizable from the point of view of data protection, especially where the persons concerned are shown in sensitive locations, e.g. outside hospitals, prisons or schools.”
Google has retorted these claims by saying that it“met with the DPA before and after the launch, explaining our technology and, where requested, proposing steps that would reinforce Street View’s privacy-protection technology and assuage any concerns." It went on to say that the Swiss agency was "unwilling to engage with the extensive solutions we have offered."
It’s just another storm in Google Street View’s tea cup. The service has attracted controversy in one form or another from every country it’s gone live in
Link: PC World News
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