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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Instead of Germany banning Street View last year as expected, Google’s been the side to wave the white flag and bow out of the war. Normal Street View practice is to continually update Street view photography, but a Google spokesperson had stated they have no intention of doing so in Germany.
Remember the fake Google Street View birth last year, made by an advertising agency? Now they made a video celebrating how they tricked everyone for a short time.
In 2008, Pennsylvania couple Aaron and Christine Boring sued Google after a Street View car took pictures of their house. Now, they’ve been awarded $US1 and Google is officially labelled a trespasser.
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I understand people’s fear of Google’s power. Really, I understand their privacy concerns and fully share them. What I just don’t understand is this stupidity about blurring houses in Germany’s Street View. 240,000 houses have just been censored like this.
Google’s agreed to no longer accidentally collect Wi-Fi data from passing Street View cars, but today relented and said all the personal data collected would be deleted – in the UK, at least. [Daily Mail]
Pity the big Goog, who is now legally obligated to publish its Italian Street View car routes in advance in newspapers, radio and on a website. This is a godsend for fame-hungry, costume-dressing Street View pranksters. [Reuters]
