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Photo: Google Street View car broken down in street

May 2, 2011

A TechPatio.com reader wanted to share his photo of a Google Street View car which had broken down in his street during December last year, where it had snowed a lot in East Kilbride, Scotland. This time the Google Street View car was the one in front of the camera, but if you want to … Read more →

Switzerland Says “No Thanks, We’ll Sue You” To Google Street View

November 16, 2009

Google started shooting pictures of the streets in Switzerland this summer for their Google Street View service. The local authorities didn’t like that one bit (no pun intended) and the Swiss commissioner for federal data protection, Hanspeter Thür, told Google to stop whatever they were doing! Google didn’t obey the request and continued their drive-by-shooting. … Read more →