Swiss Court Orders Modifications to Google Street View

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Source: International Herald Tribune

Switzerland's highest court on Friday upheld Google's basic right to document residential street fronts with its Street View technology, but imposed some limitations on the kinds of images the company can take.

The ruling leaves the service legally intact in Switzerland, which has some of the strictest privacy safeguards in the world. Swiss regulators and Google both said they were pleased with the decision.

Google also faces an antitrust investigation in Europe on charges of dominating in the Internet search market. On Friday, the competition commissioner who is leading the inquiry gave Google an early July deadline to come up with "concrete signs" of its willingness to offer "remedy proposals."

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1. Who even uses Google any more anyway...

It's basically just stolen copyrighted information.

[onehandle]

6. Google is Big Brother. Anyone who uses their 'free' services is embracing slavery. nt

[dipsydoodle]

2. Something strange about Street View

When I looked at my own house on Street View last year it had my Jeep Unlimited parked out front. Looked just now out of curiosity and now it shows the Jeep patriot I got rid of 3 years ago.

[1monster]

3. Just checked my street veiw. The photo up now was just taken about three

weeks ago... They must be constantly updating because this is about the third or forth photo of my house I've seen on street view.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Maybe they had to do some back dating in Europe to comply

and hence remove information.

I'm UK.

[Posteritatis]

4. They update the streetview and aerial shots every so often. (nt)