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Greece Halts Google's Street View
5/13/2009

Hugh Pickens writes "Greece's Data screen Authority, which has broad powers of enforcement for Greece's strict privacy laws, has banned Google from gathering detailed, street-level images in Greece for a planned extension of its Street View mapping service, until the company provides clarification on how it will store and process the innovatory




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different images and safeguard them from privacy abuses. The decision comes despite Google's assurances that it would blur faces and vehicle license plates when displaying the images online and that it would straightaway respond to removal requests. In most cases, particularly in the US, Google has been able to proceed on grounds that the images it takes are no unalike from what someone walking down a public street can see and snap. And last month, Britain's privacy watchdog dismissed touching on that Street View was too invasive, saying it was 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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