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From slashdot:
“Google has begun to scan the streets of Paris as part of its Street View service, but the company may be hindered from publishing them unedited. The reason? French privacy laws. Google may be forced to blur faces or use low-resolution versions of the photographs. The Embassy of France in the U.S. has a page devoted to French privacy laws, that says the laws are needed to ‘avoid infringing the individual’s right to privacy and right to his or her picture (photograph or drawing), both of them rights of personality.”
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No, they’re not just starting, I saw them last year, in October 2007, with their weird car hauling camera equipment that looked like a space vehicle! I photographed them! The guy driving the car was not too happy about that (according to the picture I took). I’ve been wondering what they do in these cases, when people are clearly looking at them, do they go back and photograph the street again? We had interesting shots on Google Streetview San Francisco, including a guy climbing over a fence, another one peeing, a woman showing her underwear while bending over …
Comment by Tomate Farcie 05.14.08 @ 4:46 pmLeave a comment
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