Google Streeview Launches Best Streets Of Britain Contest

Google is sending its Street View service through the Amazon rain forest, while it's still there. The Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS) talked the search giant into wandering up and down paths through remote corners of...

Google has officially decided to refrain from adding more images to its Street View feature in Google Maps for Germany, a report has revealed. The company stated that it had no intentions of updating the Street View online...

Despite finally reaching an agreement with German authorities over its mobile snooping vehicles, Google has decided to cease its Street View information gathering activities in that country - effective immediately.Although the...

Google has announced the launch of its new Art Project, allowing people to take a Street View-style tour of 17 international art museums online.The 18 month project used specially designed trolleys to take 360 degree images of...

South Korean police officials have announced that Google broke the law by collected data from unsecured wireless networks in the country and have forwarded the case to prosecutors. The search giant has been accused of collecting...

Google has refused to relinquish all e-mail, password and browser information collected from its street view cars last year to the state of Connecticut.   When asked by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to hand...

The ICO, the UK organisation in charge of monitoring data and communications, has issued a statement saying that it will not yield to calls to sanction Google after the company inadvertently downloaded login details, URLs and...

Google has announced to augment the offerings of its online road mapping service Street View by adding some famous UK tourist attractions, including Stonehenge and Loch Ness, to the service. The search engine giant carried out an...

It seems that authorities in Greece are not at all convinced by the benefits offered by Google’s Street View application and have decided to stop the search giant from adding any more images from Greece to its...

Privacy regulator the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said that 74 people have written to it about Google's Street View service since its launch last month. It said it would release details of the complaints and enquiries...

The director of Privacy International, Simon Davies is finding at his own expense that taking on "Goliath" Google over Street View was never going to be an easy task. The Telegraph reports that Mr Davies has accused Google of...

As one of the world's biggest data company, Google is bound to attract a significant amount of criticism and Google Street View, which is a feature of one of its most popular services, Google Maps, shouldn't come as a...

Google's Street View online service officially debuted in the UK on Wednesday and has already attracted its fair share of controversy and press coverage within a few hours. The feature, which is part of Google Maps and Google...

A privacy campaigner will launch a legal challenge to Google's Street View service, which was launched today. Simon Davies of Privacy International says that he will pursue "a test case" against Google.Street View comprises 360...

Google's Street View option is viewed by many people as a bit of an invasion of privacy and, after seeing the company's scanning vehicles in operation in London (on TV) a few weeks back I can understand why.Whilst the Brits have...