August 25, 2009
5:50 am
Google Street View faces privacy issues in Switzerland; Swiss official demands it shut down
Hanspeter Thür, the federal data protection commissioner, of Swiss government, is demanding that Google immediately shut down its Street View Maps service in the country. He said, Google’s pictures, which were introduced in the country last week, violated the country’s privacy laws because they failed to obscure people’s identities. “Numerous faces and license numbers weren’t blurred or were done so inadequately,” Mr. Thür said in a statement in which he demanded that Street View be shut down until it could assure that the images adhered to Swiss law. Google’s Street View mapping service offers detailed street-level images of cities worldwide.
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