Hasta la vista, Street View

Published on 19 August 2010 at 13:42

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“Europe fears Google,“ headlines Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. The American search engine's controversial Street View application, which allows users to view high-resolution pictures of residential streets and homes, is now being challenged in the Spanish as well as the German courts. A complaint has just been filed with a Madrid court, accusing Google of illegal data collection and privacy infringement. A number of similar suits were filed last week by residents of Hamburg, Germany.

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