EU Takes Closer Look At Google Street View

Google-chasing Microsoft has been outlining its plans for its Street View like service called Streetside which it plans to bring to Europe in 2011. Speaking in Germany, which proved to be more outraged than most that Google cars...

The Internet has changed the information landscape and, increasingly, individual users are finding there's no place to hide on the web - or on the street, come to that, as Google's Street View cars may come and sniff you out...

Google's fleet of Street View cars are back on UK roads - only this time they don't have the equipment to 'accidentally' collect personal data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks.Writing in the Google Privacy Europe blog, the company...

Master of the Internet, Google says it has agreed to hand over data it "mistakenly"  gathered from unsecured wireless networks in Europe. Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO told the Financial Times that the firm was ready to hand...

Street View, Google's online mapping and navigation service, has decided to include some of most popular UK theme parks in its service, in order to allow users to plan their trips by deciding which rides to go on by taking a...

After an uncomfortable time in China already this year, Google is now experiencing difficulties in Europe. Two employees, and one ex-staffer have been convicted of breaching Italian privacy regulations in a case involving...

Google has been warned about breaching Europeans' right to privacy and it has received a stiff letter warning it of what it can and can't do in the European Union. The letter was sent earlier this month by the...

European privacy watchdogs have demanded that Google delete the original images behind its Street View service. The company has said it will comply with the demand in the "long term".Street View has raised privacy concerns...

The list of Google Street View pictures that have been removed continues to grow as the British public learns to live with the controversial online mapping service. The Independent newspaper has already pointed in its Sunday...

Google's controversial Street View project was given the all clear by the Information Commissioner's Office, UK's body in charge of making sure that Brits privacy are being respected. Some critics, including UK Rights Group...

Street View allows users of Google's maps to view 360 degree photographs of streetscapes in towns and cities that have been catalogued by Google cameras. The company's distinctive cars with cameras attached were spotted on the...

A small black Opel car with a high roof-mounted camera and a Google logo was spotted by one Flickr user and by Channel 4 News, indicating that Google is gathering data for a London Steet View service.Google confirmed today that...

Google has started recording the streets of its first non-US city for its Street View service. Google vans with mounted cameras have been spotted on the streets of Rome and Milan. Car bearing Google Maps logo and mounted camera...

The head of Europe's privacy watchdogs said that he is still in negotiations with Google about a major data retention dispute and is confident that the search giant will change its policies.Google has claimed its data retention...

EDITORIAL: Like a trigger-happy tourist, Google has shot almost every street in five US cities and added its pics to what might be the world's biggest holiday album. But if Google ever starts shooting the streets of Europe,...