Angry mob 1, Google Street View car 0. A mob of angry Buckinghamshire residents in England blocked a Google Street View car from photographing their homes and neighborhood. It would seem that, following a string of nasty robberies in the neighborhood, the residents there had been on the lookout for any suspicious vehicles.  A Google [...]

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Image via CrunchBase Is this really even newsworthy anymore?  Yet another privacy group is complaining about Google Street View. Privacy International has filed a formal complaint regarding Google’s Street View service to the U.K.’s Information Commissioner (ICO). The ICO has issued the following statement on their website: “It is Google’s responsibility to ensure all vehicle [...]

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Google has added geo-tagged Panoramio photos to Google Street View images. Google’s image-matching algorithms will analyze them at some point to see if they are also a good match for a Street View location. Google has offered images on Maps for quite a while now, but they haven’t integrated them with Street View like this before. [...]

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Image by mushon via Flickr Aaron and Christine Boring of Pittsburgh, PA, sued Google back in April of 2008 for posting images of their home (which is located on a private road) on “Street View”. The lawsuit was seeking $25,000 in damages and the destruction of all photos of their home. Well, the Borings just [...]

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Image via CrunchBase It looks as though Google may have been in a bit of a rush when completing some of their local sweeps for Google Street View. It appears that a Google Street View vehicle flattened a deer near Rush, New York.  The photos were subsequently (and accidentally) added to Google Maps. The photos [...]

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Google has been taking some heat lately for its Street View feature, mostly from privacy advocates.  This week, though, it’s helped police rescue a kidnapped girl from Massachusetts. Over the weekend, Rose M. Maltais allegedly kidnapped her 9-year-old granddaughter and took her to a motel in Virginia. Athol Police Officer Todd Neale managed to track [...]

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