Google Street View threat he privacy of the inhabitants of the cities that it can virtually visit? Having already raised many controversies in Europe and the United States, the mapping service Google has sparked last week’s disapproval of Greece, and Japan. The first decided to simply stop Google to continue the shooting to supply its Street View images. In the second, “Google Cars” will have a new way, with a camera lowered a few tens of centimeters, in order to preserve the privacy of Japanese homes. 

In Greece, the sling comes from the local equivalent of the French Data Protection Authority, the Authority for the protection of personal data, which announced last Monday his decision pending further information on storage conditions and use of images taken at the level of street cars by Google, it “does not authorize the launch of the collection of images.”

In Japan, the height of the panoramic cameras used problem. Perched at a meter in height, fixed on the roof of a car, they are responsible for achieving the 360 ° images that allow users to then visit the city without leaving home. Problem: these cameras would be placed high enough to go over some walls or overcome some windows, and images captured dévoilerait Japanese gardens and interiors. Faced with the outcry caused by publication of its first images in Japan, the search engine has agreed to do his shooting, using a camera closest to the ground.

If the pill Street View is pretty good in France, despite the remarks of the CNIL, all do not see Google Cars have a very good eye. To stay ahead of problems, Google has had to become accustomed to flout the faces of passers-by and car license plates to limit the possible violations of privacy.

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