The Guardian blogs this morning picked up on the news that Google will soon be launching the Street View version of its maps service in Europe, and predicts law suits in countries with strict privacy laws, such as France, despite Google's intention to pixelate all faces. They may well be right - identifiable data goes beyond a person's face; and one also wonders how the British courts will react in the aftermath of the Court of Appeal ruling on the JK Rowling toddler photos.
Pictures of the Google fleet filming Paris have been published here and elsewhere. So if you see a black Opel/Vauxhall Astra with a large camera on its roof approaching, smile 'cos you're on not-so candid camera...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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