EU Privacy Push May Drive Google To Stop Updating Street View In Europe
Mar 8, 2010 at 9:32am ET by Greg Sterling
For a non-European traveling to Europe Google Street View is a great resource. This weekend, for example, the NY Times ran a piece on the Italian region of Tuscany. I then went to Google Maps to investigate how much of the region was available via Street View -- a fair amount. That enabled me to then "drive" some of the roads and see more images of towns and the scenery in general.
While Tuscany doesn't need any promotion, the availability of Street View images is very useful to travelers and would-be tourists from abroad. But Street View is also useful to locals as well.
Street [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Maps & Local, Google: Outside US, Legal: Privacy
Google’s Street View Finds More Trouble In Europe
Feb 26, 2010 at 1:26pm ET by Matt McGee
In a letter earlier this month, members of the European Union's data protection group urged Google to make changes to its Street View mapping/photo service and warned that Google might be breaking EU laws.
According to Bloomberg News, the letter from the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party asks Google to store unblurred Street View images for six months, instead of the one year that images are currently stored. The Associated Press adds that the letter also asks Google to notify residents in advance of taking Street View photos by posting information on its web site, as well as in loca [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Street View, Legal: Privacy
Italian Court Finds Google Execs Guilty Of Violating Privacy Code
Feb 24, 2010 at 2:11pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Three Google executives have been found guilty of criminal charges over a bullying video that appeared on the Google Video service. Google has responded with a blog post pledging to appeal the convictions and suggesting that they undermine "the very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built."
The video involved a youth with Down's syndrome in Italy being taunted by four teenagers. The video was posted to Google Video in September 2006. Google has argued that it removed the video within hours and worked with authorities to find the teenagers, something it repeated in its blog post [...]
Filed in: Google: Legal, Google: YouTube & Video, Legal: Privacy, Top News
Google: “With Buzz We Failed To Appreciate That Users Have Differing Privacy Expectations”
Feb 19, 2010 at 3:08pm ET by Greg Sterling
Google scheduled a privacy discussion for reporters and bloggers at its San Francisco offices a couple of weeks ago. The timing turned out to be unexpectedly ironic.
The idea was to "walk through a short presentation about [Google's] guiding principles for privacy, how we use data and some of our comprehensive privacy efforts over the past year." In the interim, between the invitation and the meeting however, Buzz launched and the privacy concerns and complaints forced this meeting in part of be about that product.
Google Managing Product Counsel Mike Yang -- he's part of a team Google a [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Legal: Privacy, Top News
Canadian Government Reviewing Google Buzz; U.S. Govt. Next?
Feb 16, 2010 at 8:43pm ET by Matt McGee
Postscript, February 17: The CBC article cited below has reworded its article and now says the Canadian government is "reviewing" rather than "investigating" Buzz. A semantic distinction, perhaps, but there's apparently no formal government investigation happening in Canada at the moment, so we've updated our headline, too. We've also received a statement from Google on this, and that's appended at the end of this article.
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After a "challenging" first week for Google Buzz, week number two has begun with still more concerns over privacy, not to mention a government investiga [...]
Filed in: Google: Buzz, Google: Critics, Legal: Privacy, Top News
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