Google Street View Captures Murder in Belo Horizonte Brazil

Warning Strong Images Contained in This Post Google Street View has captured some interesting images in the past (horse boy for example), but Street View users noticed something more grizzly when looking at images of...

Horse-Boy: Scotland's Google Street-View Phenomenon

Mysterious 'Horse-Boy' Captures Imagination with Equine Mask Google Street View, useful and intrusive, provides all manner of unintentional humor. For example, "Horse-Boy", who is neither horse nor boy, but a man...

Google Street View Now Available In Canada

It seems Google Street View has launched in most Canadian citties. The street level photo service allows users to zoom in and navigate photos of a huge array of addresses. Here is a list of the Canadian Towns...

Google Street View Face-Blurring Deficiencies Upset the Swiss

The Swiss government has requested that Google Street View, a Google program that provides users with street level views of streets worldwide, withdraw from Switzerland because of malfunctions in Google Street...

Google Street View to Re-do Japan Due to Privacy Issues

Google's street view is facing more privacy concerns, as it announced plans to reshoot all of its Japanese pictures in a way that won't intrude on people's privacy. Google was responding to complaints that the cameras were taking pictures above fences and into people's...

Google Street View Gets UK Approval

The British government has given the go-ahead for Google Street View van to keep on truckin' in the UK. Protestors in Broughton had objected to the presence of the street-view filming process, asserting that their...

Crowd in UK Blocks Google Street View Car From Snapping Pics

A group of residents in Milton, England blocked a Google street view car when it began taking pictures of their homes. Police were called to a group protesting the street view service, saying it violated their privacy. The demonstrators blocked the car from moving forward or...

Forget Your Privacy, Let Google Street View Publicly Identify You

Anyone who's ever used the internet, let alone social media sites and networks, knows that privacy is a digital illusion. We are ever-more indexable, searchable, findable, contactable and now easily identifiable,...

Google enlists public to map fast-changing world

Citizen cartography, anyone? It seems to be working in Bangalore, where everyday web users are adding to- and editing- existing Google street-maps to fix errors and insert new elements." Fed up with getting lost...

Google begins to blur faces in Street View

In response to privacy concerns, Google has developed a face-blurring technology for its Street View service."The technology uses a computer algorithm to scour Google's image database for faces, then blurs...

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