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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Google Inc has been ordered by city police to suspend its "Street View" service in the Indian IT hub of Bangalore, the company said on Tuesday, in the latest setback to its global mapping project that has been ...
US senators introduced bills on Wednesday aimed at protecting the privacy of mobile phone users and safeguarding personal information of consumers stored online.The Location Privacy Protection Act would require companies like Apple and Google and applications developers to obtain express consent from ...
Google launched its "Street View" project in India on Thursday aiming to collect panoramic images of the vast country ranging from its palaces to its slums.The 360-degree photographic mapping service, which is already in operation in more than 25 countries, began gathering ...
Google said on Wednesday that it will appeal to Switzerland's highest court against a ruling ordering the Internet giant to ensure that all people and cars pictured on Street View are unrecognisable.The official Swiss data protection watchdog took Google to court in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers considering new privacy laws scolded Google and Apple on Tuesday for not doing enough to guard mobile device users' location data, despite executives' assertions that they do not abuse the information."I have serious doubts about whether those rights ...
Belgium became Thursday the latest European country to investigate Google's Street View picture map after cars taking pictures for the programme collected private data."We have received a complaint from the privacy protection committee and we have opened an investigation," federal prosecutor's spokesman ...
The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Google on Wednesday over Google Buzz, the social networking tool rolled out last year which spawned a slew of privacy complaints.Under the settlement announced by the US regulator, Google is required to implement a ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France's data protection regulator has fined Google 100,000 euros for collecting private data from wireless networks when its camera-equipped cars gathered footage for its on-line map service Street View.The Commission nationale de l'information et des libertes (CNIL) told Google ...
France's data privacy regulator said on Monday it had imposed a record fine of 100,000 euros ($142,000) on Google for having collected private information while compiling its panoramic Street View service."It is a record fine since we obtained the power in 2004 ...
The US state of Connecticut said Friday it would hold negotiations with Google over the collection of private wireless data by its Street View mapping cars and not take the Internet giant to court."This is a good result for the people of ...
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