Google UK Hit With Privacy Complaints
The Raw Feed:
Google Street View hit the UK this week, and now the company is being flooded with complaints about violation of privacy. Pictures -- a man barfing his guts out on the sidewalk, another emerging from a porn shop, another being arrested -- are being removed or blurred by Google as fast as the company can process the complaints.
The complaints noted above seem slightly different from those in the US. Not any more legally congizable - at least from the perspective of US law (although UK privacy laws are supposed to be stricter, and I am sure Google Street View will make some mods in the EU (if it has not already)). It's just that I hadn't heard of complaints in the US about people who say they were caught on Street View puking or coming out of a sex shop.
On another note - I've never seen the "Google car" in person. The above image is from Flickr (Roberto_Garcia) (CC license), and there are a slew of other ones uploaded on Flickr.
Maybe the Google Street View cars were just more brazen in the UK? - one more:
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