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Article | 26/02/2011 Swiss court to issue ruling on Google Street View
A Swiss court is considering a request from the country's data protection commissioner that Google should manually blur people's faces in its Street V...
Article | 18/12/2010 Connecticut may sue Google over Wi-Fi data request
Google has missed a deadline set by the Connecticut Attorney General's Office for turning over data that it says was collected inadvertently by its St...
Article | 25/11/2010 Microsoft nabs OpenStreetMap founder
As part of an initiative to leverage the OpenStreetMap project for its own Bing Maps, Microsoft has hired OSM founder Steve Coast, the company announc...
Article | 3/11/2010 Street View goes live in Germany with blurred images
Google gingerly launched a select set of Street View images for Germany on Tuesday, a country where it has faced some of the most fierce opposition to...
Article | 20/10/2010 Spain moves to fine Google over Street View
The Spanish Data Protection Agency is preparing to fine Google over infractions against local data protection laws when it collected Wi-Fi data as par...
Article | 20/08/2010 Experts give preliminary OK to Facebook Places
Pressed to respond to the rising popularity of online services that let people broadcast their location, Facebook mostly hit the right notes with the ...
Article | 28/06/2010 German regulators welcome street panorama privacy law draft
German privacy regulators have welcomed a proposal to extend laws protecting Germans' right to privacy to cover use of their own image and that of the...