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...
created by Sudha Krishna | 6 wks ago | updated 6 wks ago 204 views | 14 recommendations | 1 comment
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'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...
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...
created by Jordan Yerman | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 52 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
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,...
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...
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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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