Google comenzó a tomar fotografías de las calles en Suiza este verano para su servicio de Google Street View. Las autoridades locales no les gustó lo más mínimo (sin juego de palabras) y el comisario de Suiza para la protección de datos federal, Hanspeter puerta, Google dijo que dejen de hacer lo que estaban haciendo!
Google no obedeció la petición y continuaron con su drive-by-shooting. Now Hanspeter Thür intends to sue Google, to make them stop.
The Swiss has a very strict personal data protection act which, according to Thür, Google does not do enough to keep up with. Por ejemplo, Google uses software to blur faces on the pictures, but the software is not 100% effective.
What Thür wants, is for Google to blur all faces, license plates, remove pictures of closed gardens and private roads as well as warning citizens in the neighborhood 1 week in advance when Google intend to drive by to take pictures.
Google is working on a better version for face recognition and blurring.
Más información: Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View.
I wouldn’t want to miss more of those pictures so I hope Switzerland will let Google continue shooting: Superior 10 Moments Caught on Google Maps Street View.
