Google fined €145,000 in Germany over WiFi Street View data
German regulators have fined Google €145,000 ($189,230) over the company's previous practice of collecting data via the WiFi antennas for Google's Street View cars. More...
German regulators have fined Google €145,000 ($189,230) over the company's previous practice of collecting data via the WiFi antennas for Google's Street View cars. More...
Google Maps has updated its Street View images to show what it is like on some of the world's tallest mountain peaks, including Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro and more. More...
Google is approaching a settlement over Wi-Fi data tapping, being forced to cough up $7 million to some 30 U.S. states. More...
Google has now posted up new photos on its Google Maps blog that prove one of its Street View photo cars did not run over a stray donkey in the country of Botswana. More...
Did a Google Street View car run over a donkey in Botswana? The images seem to imply so, but Google denies it. How long before PETA gets involved and starts publicly protesting the search giant? More...
Google has announced it has launched a massive update of its Street View feature in Google Maps, offering updated ground level images of over 250,000 miles of roads. More...
Google has announced that it has finally added the Street View map feature for people who access Google Maps on mobile web browsers, including iOS's Safari browser. More...
Google has publicly admitted that it has not deleted all of the Street View data it collected in the UK and other European countries in 2010, as it promised to do. More...
Forget Google's Street View for the road! The company has released new panoramic images of the South Pole and several 'landmarks' on our southern most continent. More...
The Federal Communications Commission has recommended that Google be fined just $25,000 for allegedly blocking the FCC's investigation of Google's WiFi data storing policies. More...
Google's method of obtaining info for its Street View feature in Google Maps has also had a fairly scary side effect. According to a story at CNet's News.com, the cars that are used by Google... More...
Microsoft, Google, and AOL are the subjects of a lawsuit from a company that claims the three defendants violated the patents of its 3D mapping software. Bloomberg reports that Transcenic filed the lawsuit earlier this... More...
A Japanese woman is suing Google over a revealing Street View image, according to a report out of The Telegraph UK. The unidentified woman is asking for 600,000 Yen (US$7163) due to psychological distress caused... More...
Respecting ones privacy is something that Google has always said it enforced with public data. Despite its notable slip ups, one thing Google has allowed users to do is to opt out of its popular... More...
Google has been under investigation for the past couple of months for 'accidentally' stealing WiFi data on its Google Street View cars. The cars were designed to take snapshots of streets to help improve its... More...
According to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (ICO), Google did not collect any personal details when collecting data from wifi networks for their location based services. Google was cleared of the charges after the ICO... More...
Microsoft researchers have developed a tool to enhance the current street view functionality of Bing Streetside. In a typical street view implementation, a sense of “being there” is accomplished by putting photos side by side... More...
Google has announced it will resume capturing images for its Street View service next week, after a scandal which saw private data accidentally captured by rogue code and left the search giant red-faced as privacy... More...
A nursery worker from Uckfield, East Sussex has turned into an internet sensation after flashing her bra at a Google street view camera. The moment was caught and published onto Google's Street View service in the... More...
Google has relaxed its opposition to European regulators and will hand over the open wireless network data it collected from its Street View cars over the past three years. Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt,... More...
Google has stirred up a lot of trouble with their street view project. They've been sued for driving up a couples private drive and snapping a photo of their house and they even started blurring... More...
An update to Google Street View has seen the addition of popular UK theme parks Alton Towers and Legoland Windsor to the service, allowing users to explore everything the parks visually have to offer from... More...
Google has long history of trying to play April Fools' pranks on their users, and this year was no different with hoaxes across a wide range of their services. Here's a round-up of all Google's... More...
On Thursday, Google went live with its expanded Street View for the UK. The street level service now covers approximately 96% of the 246,985 miles of thoroughfares. This major update comes on the back of... More...
The European Union (EU) has issued a devastating blow to Google saying that they must delete unblurred Street View images after 6 months ; Google’s policy had been that it deletes or updates the photos... More...
Tipped off by friends, two Norwegian pranksters dressed as scuba divers chased after a Google Street View car in Norway. The pair were spotted on Street View this week after Google updated its Maps for Norway... More...
Everybody knows about Google's Street View cars. They drive around cities and other areas, taking photographs as they go, in order to stitch the images together and provide the service that we know as, of... More...
Photographs taken for Google Street View in Los Angeles show a pigeon giving its own opinion on the service in the latest comedy mishap caught by the service since its launch in 2007 - and... More...
A musician from Saskatoon, Canada has succeeded in promoting himself online by getting his picture onto Google's Street View. Getting himself ahead of the car when it visited his town earlier this year wasn't easy,... More...
Google's UK version of street view for Google Maps launched last week in the UK and has created a media circus ever since. The Google Maps feature, which allows users to browse through popular cities... More...
A lawsuit made by a couple who claim that Google's Street View violated their privacy, has been dismissed by a federal judge, according to BBC News. Christine and Aaron Boring claimed that the photographs, taken... More...
Google Maps street view is a massive undertaking by Google. The idea of bringing a street level view to almost every major road in the country is nothing to scoff at and then to... More...
Google received another request on Friday to stop its Street View service, this time from a group of Japanese lawyers and professors who say the service violates their right to privacy. Talking to Reuters,... More...
A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet. He had been drowning his sorrows over the death... More...