Glow-in-the-dark writes "The Swiss office for Data charge has asked Google to turn off Street View within the country because it doesn't meet the clime popular when ok was given to go ahead with the photography. Google answered privacy poignant with the coming points (I'm
dissemination them from German; here's an automated translation): 'Google will publish in advance where it is going to record the images, so you can act accordingly.' Do they want you to hide? Where is the real obligation here? 'Google has made masking the images of people and car license plates obligatory.' I think this is where trouble starts, because their acquiescence to go ahead appears to have been dependent on how well they did this. I have browsed one precise town as an venture and was quite quickly able to find unmasked faces. This means that either the algorithm they use doesn't work, or that it is done manually and they've fallen behind (in which case they should not have put up the images). 'Although a picture of a home is naturally not covered under Data Protection, Google has agreed to remove them if asked. Follow the same process as removing a person.' I think it wouldn't be half as bad if the show weren't taken with a high enough resolution to see inside a house. In short, Google has not been given the easy ride it had in other and japan connected with Street View. I in truth suspect there is more to come."

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