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(AP) -- Google Inc. is defending its "Street View" feature against sharp criticism in Germany saying it has gone a long way to address people's privacy concerns. http://phys.org/news201512799.html Technology Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:46:45 EST news201512799 (AP) -- Google Inc. says it has doubled the time Germans have to opt out of participation in its "Street View" feature, which has sparked a fierce public debate on privacy concerns. http://phys.org/news201432918.html Technology Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:00:04 EST news201432918 (AP) -- The German government will consider new rules to address the privacy implications of Internet services such as Google's "Street View," and plans a meeting next month with the California-based company and others, officials said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news201350044.html Technology Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:36:29 EST news201350044 (AP) -- Spain is investigating Google over its "Street View" mapping feature, becoming the latest country to tangle with the Internet search giant over concerns it violated people's privacy while taking shots of city streets. http://phys.org/news201266619.html Technology Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:00:01 EST news201266619 South Korean police Tuesday searched the offices of Google Korea to investigate whether it breached privacy law in collecting information for its Street View service, an officer said. http://phys.org/news200658655.html Technology Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:00:01 EST news200658655 Internet giant Google will from next week allow Germans to opt-out of its disputed Street View navigation service ahead of its launch in the country this year, the company said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news200640979.html Technology Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:36:40 EST news200640979 (PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine encountering leashed dogs without dog walkers, or shoes filled just with ankles - when scoping out potential apartments using Google Street View. These are the sorts of visual hiccups that an experimental computer vision system occasionally generates when it automatically removes individual pedestrians from images that populate Google Street View. http://phys.org/news200238408.html Technology Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:47:06 EST news200238408 Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its "Street View" mapping service in Hong Kong, in what the city's privacy commissioner said was a first. http://phys.org/news199730267.html Technology Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:38:00 EST news199730267 (PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has unveiled "Street Slide," which gives viewers 360-degree multi-perspective panoramas ("bubbles") of a city streetscape. The system should rival Google's Street View and Bing Maps' Streetside. http://phys.org/news199601621.html Technology Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:50:01 EST news199601621 US state attorneys pressed Google to name workers who wrote the "snooping" code that captured personal data from wireless networks while Street View cars mapped streets. http://phys.org/news198987888.html Technology Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:50:01 EST news198987888 Google's "Street View" cars will return to the road next week but all wireless scanning equipment has been removed after a controversy over the collection of private information. http://phys.org/news197897657.html Technology Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:00:02 EST news197897657 (AP) -- Google broke Australia's privacy law when it collected private information from wireless networks, the country's privacy commissioner said Friday, following an investigation into the Internet giant's "Street View" mapping service. http://phys.org/news197871280.html Technology Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:20:01 EST news197871280 (AP) -- A German data protection official said Wednesday he launched legal proceedings against Facebook, which he accused of illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don't use the social networking site. http://phys.org/news197716319.html Technology Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:30:01 EST news197716319 The attorney general of the US state of Connecticut is looking into whether Google broke the law by capturing people's personal data from wireless networks while Street View bicycles and cars mapped streets. http://phys.org/news196371497.html Technology Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:38:29 EST news196371497 France became the latest country Thursday to probe Google for gathering personal data as its Street View bikes and cars photographed cities across the world for the controversial mapping service. http://phys.org/news195995033.html Technology Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:20:01 EST news195995033 Google has deleted private wireless data mistakenly collected by its "Street View" cars in Austria, Denmark and Ireland, the Internet giant said in a letter to US lawmakers. http://phys.org/news195485567.html Technology Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:50:02 EST news195485567 (AP) -- Connecticut's attorney general says Google has informed his office that it collected data over the state's public wireless networks in 2008 for its mapping service. http://phys.org/news195278869.html Technology Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:08:10 EST news195278869 (AP) -- Google representatives on Monday said the search engine company has not broken any laws with the collection of data for its mapping service, after Connecticut's attorney general pressed the company to "come clean with the American public." http://phys.org/news195155114.html Technology Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:45:33 EST news195155114 (AP) -- Connecticut's attorney general says he's investigating whether Google illegally collected data from personal and business wireless computer networks for its mapping service. http://phys.org/news195134913.html Technology Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:10:02 EST news195134913 Australia on Monday denied waging a campaign of vengeance against Google after launching a police probe of the web giant, a strong critic of plans for a nationwide Internet filter. http://phys.org/news195114210.html Technology Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:23:42 EST news195114210 (AP) -- Australia announced a police investigation Sunday into whether Google illegally collected private information from wireless networks, becoming at least the second country to probe the Internet giant's "Street View" mapping service. http://phys.org/news195046823.html Technology Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:40:54 EST news195046823 Google will begin handing over private data mistakenly gathered from wireless Internet connections to European regulations within the next two days, the Financial Times reported Friday. http://phys.org/news194888695.html Technology Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:45:11 EST news194888695 (AP) -- Facebook still isn't doing enough to protect users' data, Germany's consumer protection minister said Thursday, adding that she plans to give up her account. http://phys.org/news194785005.html Technology Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:20:01 EST news194785005 Canada's privacy commissioner said Tuesday she was probing Google's inadvertent collection of data from unsecured wireless networks as its cars photographed streetscapes for its mapping service. http://phys.org/news194639056.html Technology Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:40:01 EST news194639056 (AP) -- The head of the House Judiciary Committee is asking Google and Facebook to cooperate with government inquiries into privacy practices at both companies. http://phys.org/news194288322.html Technology Fri, 28 May 2010 17:59:10 EST news194288322 Austria has placed a temporary ban on Google Street View cars while it probes concerns that the Internet company used the vehicles to collect private data, a statement said Friday. http://phys.org/news194273855.html Technology Fri, 28 May 2010 13:57:49 EST news194273855 A federal judge has ordered Google to turn over copies of US private wireless data it captured while taking pictures for its "Street View" mapping service. http://phys.org/news194197059.html Technology Thu, 27 May 2010 16:37:51 EST news194197059 Switzerland's data protection chief said Sunday that the country needs new rules to regulate Internet services such as Google which could pose a problem to individuals' privacy. http://phys.org/news193847310.html Technology Sun, 23 May 2010 15:40:01 EST news193847310 (PhysOrg.com) -- GPS may no longer have to be about following audio directions only, and looking at maps on your screen. Wikitude Drive for Android offers an augmented reality feature that lets you actually see the road ahead. http://phys.org/news193667758.html Technology Fri, 21 May 2010 14:40:01 EST news193667758 (AP) -- Germany's Foreign Minister has warned Google co-founder Larry Page to respect the nation's data protection laws in an escalating dispute over the U.S. Internet giant's "Street View" mapping program. http://phys.org/news193579516.html Technology Thu, 20 May 2010 13:05:28 EST news193579516