After nearly a decade in court, Google has agreed to pay $US13 ($19) million in a class-action lawsuit alleging its Street View program collected people’s private data over Wi-Fi from 2007 to 2010. In addition to the moolah, the settlement, filed Saturday, also calls for Google to destroy all the…
Belgium plans to sue Google over the tech giant’s refusal to blur sensitive military sites and nuclear power plants on the company’s various mapping platforms. Military leaders in Belgium have not yet filed a formal complaint but confirmed to Reuters that they intend to sue.
Street View has always been a useful Google tool, letting you spy on holiday destinations, historical landmarks, and your own driveway from the comfort of a web-connected computer. What it lacks is a way to take a seamless ride through a Street View-powered world, but now there’s a site that…