Google Street view

Adam H · May 22, 2009

Anyone seen the car around their area ? I had a car drive past my house yesterday, wonder how long it will take to get online

a4hire · May 23, 2009

Maybe Google is just getting to your neighborhood. My house has been on there for sometime. They still have an old picture of our place, you can my wife's big old Lincoln out front. But we don't have that car anymore so I know it is an old picture.
3432 E. Pueblo ave. Mesa AZ - Google Maps

masterweb · May 24, 2009

I saw it near my job (Milan, Italy) about 3 months ago and the pics are online now, recently i saw on a newspaper (always here in Italy) that Google will use a sort of bike to take pics on places where cars can't traffic...

Alan · Jun 10, 2009

I had the car round by my house in November last year, no sign ofany area close to me going online. Dont really want this online anyway, there's too much invasion of privacy. I had heard that both Japan and Germany had banned this. Can anyone confirm if this is correct?

Adam H · Jun 11, 2009

Alan said: ↑

I had the car round by my house in November last year, no sign ofany area close to me going online. Dont really want this online anyway, there's too much invasion of privacy. I had heard that both Japan and Germany had banned this. Can anyone confirm if this is correct?

I found this :

Germany

In an April 2009 interview for the magazine Focus Google's Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer remarked that "public opposition to Google Street View in Germany, though not hysterical, had been tougher than in any other country."[99] On the same occasion he stated that the project has now been "essentially aligned with the concerns of data privacy advocates," and that "specific privacy tools would be developed for the German launch while imaging continues at the fastest possible pace." The option to have specific images removed would also apply for locations in Germany.

Greece

Google has been stopped from gathering images in Greek cities for its Street View service until it provides further guarantees about privacy.

Australia

In 2007, Google pledged not to identify faces or number plates in Australia.[101] However, as of March 2009, it is still possible to view both

Japan

In Japan, Google Street View started in August 2008 and was made available for ten Japanese Prefectures in February 2009. The available Street View areas depicted residential and business areas, and showed the faces of pedestrians, displayed vehicle registration plates, and the name plate of a family residence (表札, Hyōsatsu?) - Google's decision to show these has led to disputes. Local governments, lawyers and individuals claimed Google was violating privacy.[104] On 3 February 2009, Google Japan representatives attended a meeting about privacy concerns held at a Tokyo Metropolitan Government facility, and agreed that privacy issues had not been adequately considered. Google pledged that, before taking photographs for Street View, they would in future notify the provinces' local government. Google Japan admitted that notifications and explanations of this kind had already been taking place in countries other than Japan, but had not done so in Japan as they were not aware of the potential privacy concerns.[105]

On 13 May 2009, Google Japan announced that it would modify their cameras to scan from a reduced height of 2.05 meters above ground level, 40 centimeters lower than the original height of the camera head. This reduced height is to apply immediately, and all areas previously visited will be rescanned from the reduced height. Scans taken at the original height will remain available until they are replaced with the new images. (It has pointed out that this seems inconsistent.)

Alan · Jun 11, 2009

As I thought, its all based around privacy.

goldyweb · Jun 23, 2009

They went past my college The bad luck was that, i was standing the other way round, my face didn't come up right

Although it was quite fast, they just went like a virgin train :O

Digger · Jun 23, 2009

goldyweb said: ↑

They went past my college The bad luck was that, i was standing the other way round, my face didn't come up right

Although it was quite fast, they just went like a virgin train :O

haha , that would be cool getting your face in the caption

goldyweb · Jun 24, 2009

actually they blur it up anyway but it would be a good momento...

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