May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Street_view":
Business & Money: 30 Apr 12
Google has admitted that it deliberately took people's internet surfing information with cars it sent around Germany taking pictures for its Street-View service.
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Science & Technology: 11 Nov 11
While Google fights a sceptical public and officials in Germany, it is simultaneously funding a new internet research institute in Berlin. What is the US web giant hoping to accomplish? Moises Mendoza investigates.
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Science & Technology: 3 Nov 11
Data protection officials in Hamburg are accusing Facebook of a new breach of German privacy laws by tracking users even after they’ve cancelled their accounts.
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Science & Technology: 2 Nov 11
Top video game maker EA has been forced to modify the terms and conditions of its online distribution system Origin following allegations that it violated German privacy regulations.
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Science & Technology: 10 Oct 11
Microsoft’s Streetside service, which allows users to see virtual views of streets and houses, in a similar way to Google’s Street View is only generating a fraction of the opposition.
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Science & Technology: 8 Sep 11
Facebook said Thursday it would sign up to a voluntary code of conduct in Germany to protect user data, the first time the site has agreed to such measures in a nation known for vehemently protecting people's privacy.
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Science & Technology: 3 Aug 11
German data protection authorities say Facebook’s new facial recognition feature is illegal and have demanded the social networking site end its use and delete all related information.
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Science & Technology: 11 Jul 11
A Google-funded institute in Berlin to study the internet's impact on society is starting to take shape, with the US tech giant company announcing on Monday it would invest €4.5 million in the project.
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Science & Technology: 9 Jun 11
US tech giant Microsoft has decided to offer Germans the ability to opt out of its online map service “Streetside” after pressure from privacy advocates.
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Science & Technology: 23 May 11
US software giant Microsoft began photographing more than 50 German cities for its online map service “Streetside” on Monday, setting up a potential confrontation with privacy groups across the country.
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Society: 7 Mar 11
The Rhineland’s Rosenmontag parades kicked off on Monday, marking the pinnacle of the region’s Karneval celebrations with boozy processions featuring off-colour floats lampooning the year’s big news events.
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Science & Technology: 23 Feb 11
Data protection authorities are stepping up their efforts to make it harder for German websites to pass along visitors' IP addresses. If they succeed, it could mean the end of online advertising in Germany in its current form.
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Science & Technology: 16 Feb 11
Google has been the frequent target of Germany's data protection officials, but instead of retreating from the country, the US web giant is reportedly planning to create a leading internet research facility in Berlin.
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Business & Money: 25 Jan 11
Google on Tuesday said it planned to invest heavily in its operations in Germany this year, creating hundreds of new jobs at the US internet giant.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jan 11
Under pressure from German privacy watchdogs, Facebook has agreed to beef up privacy protections in its Friend Finder feature, a data protection official in Hamburg said this week.
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Science & Technology: 11 Jan 11
German web companies could face hefty fines for using Google's online metrics service after data protection officials broke off talks with the US internet giant this week and threatened to pursue a precedent-setting court case.
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National: 29 Dec 10
As 2011 prepares to kick off, The Local takes a look back at some of the stories that caught our attention during the past year in Germany.
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Science & Technology: 1 Dec 10
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière on Wednesday announced plans to introduce sweeping new measures to protect the personal data of internet users.
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Science & Technology: 18 Nov 10
Google Street View, which has sparked a lengthy and heated debate in privacy-conscious Germany, went online overnight.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 10
With nearly a quarter of a million Germans opting out of Google’s Street View service, US author and journalist Jeff Jarvis laments the digital bombing of the country’s landscape.
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Science & Technology: 3 Nov 10
A day after a small town became the first in Germany to welcome Google's controversial Street View service with open arms and cake, a tiny northern village responded Wednesday with a resounding Nein.
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Science & Technology: 2 Nov 10
Google presented Germany a foretaste of its controversial Street View navigation programme on Tuesday, featuring six national landmarks, 10 Bundesliga football stadiums and a few streets in the country's southern Allgäu region.
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Science & Technology: 21 Oct 10
Google on Thursday revealed some 245,000 buildings were registered for Street View’s opt-out scheme in Germany, saying the figure did not correspond with the widespread controversy over the online navigation service.
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Science & Technology: 18 Oct 10
German ministers have criticised social networking site Facebook for failing to respect privacy, following a report of a serious flaw that allowed non-subscribers access to private data.
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Science & Technology: 15 Oct 10
Time is almost up for German residents to opt out of having their homes or businesses shown on Google's controversial Street View service. The deadline is midnight on Friday for people living in the 20 cities set to go online later this year.
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Science & Technology: 3 Oct 10
"Stayfriends," a German online networking website that allows members to connect with old classmates, intends to photograph thousands of schools nationwide – without previous permission, according to a Saturday news report.
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Science & Technology: 20 Sep 10
German politicians on Monday called for comprehensive data protection regulations ahead of a summit in Berlin on handling hot-button issues such as geotagging and the controversial online mapping service Google Street View.
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Science & Technology: 19 Sep 10
Google is facing fierce opposition to its Street View service in Germany with hundreds of thousands opting out, Der Spiegel news weekly reported in its latest issue.
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Science & Technology: 9 Sep 10
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on Thursday he understood why Germans were uneasy about the company's Street View service for historical reasons, as he began a charm offensive aimed at assuaging their privacy concerns.
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Science & Technology: 7 Sep 10
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière wants to give Germans the right to a “digital eraser” to delete personal online content, he said on Tuesday. He hopes to add the idea to a new data protection law set for completion this autumn.
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Science & Technology: 19 Aug 10
Responding to a firestorm of protest in Germany over its disputed Street View navigation service, Google said Thursday it would extend a deadline for allowing people to opt out.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 Aug 10
Google Street View is still harmless, says German consumer protection expert Falk Lüke, but that doesn’t mean the discussion surrounding it is unnecessary. Instead, we should be focused on creating international rules for online privacy.
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National: 18 Aug 10
Coalition politicians are demanding Google be forced to gather residents’ consent to have their homes photographed for Street View rather than wait for them to object, as cabinet prepared Wednesday to discuss changes to the law.
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Science & Technology: 17 Aug 10
German Consumer Affairs Minister Ilse Aigner on Tuesday called on Google to improve the options for the country's citizens to opt out from having their homes featured on the internet giant’s online “Street View” program.
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Science & Technology: 13 Aug 10
Google's plans to launch its "Street View" program in Germany have sparked outrage among politicians and data protection experts. But how upset are average citizens? And is their privacy truly threatened? David Wroe reports.
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Science & Technology: 12 Aug 10
As a growing number of German politicians said they would forbid Google from showing their homes on the internet giant's “Street View” service, the government on Thursday announced plans for a law to protect citizens' privacy on the web.
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Science & Technology: 11 Aug 10
Internet giant Google’s plan to introduce its ''Street View'' to Germany has sparked a groundswell of debate about privacy, with one senior conservative politician complaining on Wednesday that the service would help burglars.
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Science & Technology: 10 Aug 10
Internet giant Google announced Tuesday it would launch its controversial Street View service in 20 German cities by the end of the year but would give residents the chance to opt out if they were worried about their privacy.
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Science & Technology: 12 Jul 10
Germany's consumer minister, who vowed to delete her Facebook account in protest at the networking site's privacy policies, called Monday for an Internet "honour code" to protect personal data.
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Science & Technology: 3 Jun 10
German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner said Thursday she was deleting her Facebook account in protest because the social networking site's new privacy settings announced last week do not go far enough.
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National: 30 May 10
German consumer protection minister Ilse Aigner says that internet giant Google could face "more than 50,000" lawsuits in Germany because of its controversial virtual photo service Street View.
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Science & Technology: 20 May 10
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle met Google co-founder Larry Page Thursday, amid tensions over its controversial Street View service and Berlin's concerns about data privacy.
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Science & Technology: 19 May 10
Hamburg prosecutors opened an investigation into US internet giant Google on Wednesday following the company’s admission that it had mistakenly gathered personal data over unsecured systems with its Street View mapping service.
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Science & Technology: 15 May 10
Google is halting the collection of WiFi network information for its controversial "Street View" mapping service after admitting it mistakenly gathered personal data sent over unsecured systems following a German audit.
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Science & Technology: 1 May 10
Germany said Friday that Google had agreed to address thorny privacy concerns before launching its Street View navigation service in the country, ending a row between the firm and Berlin.
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Science & Technology: 7 Apr 10
Anti-Facebook feelings in Germany grew Wednesday as a major consumer group urged people to abandon the social networking website unless it scraps planned changes to its privacy policy.
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Science & Technology: 30 Mar 10
Vandals in Germany have sabotaged a Google "Street View" car, police said Tuesday, an apparent act of protest against the navigation service that is controversial in the country amid privacy concerns.
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Science & Technology: 1 Mar 10
German Consumer Minister Ilse Aigner on Monday warned of the growing power of internet companies like Google and Apple, as CeBit, the world’s biggest high-tech trade fair, prepared to kick off in Hannover.
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Science & Technology: 23 Feb 10
Federal data protection commissioner Peter Schaar on Tuesday called for a review of internet search engine Google’s market dominance, as the company promised to bring its Street View application to Germany by the end of the year.
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Society: 7 Feb 10
Google's "Street View" faces a new hurdle in Germany, with Consumer Minister Ilse Aigner branding it on Sunday a “million-fold violation of the private sphere” and demanding the internet giant get additional consent from people photographed.
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Science & Technology: 7 Dec 09
Google Earth recently added a new feature for history fans: With the program’s historical imagery function, users now can explore the devastating ruin of Berlin just before the end of the Second World War.
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Science & Technology: 17 Jun 09
Google has bowed to demands in Germany to do more to protect people's privacy ahead of the launch of its Street View service in the country, officials said on Wednesday.
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Science & Technology: 18 May 09
Hamburg’s data protection commissioner Johannes Caspar has given Google an ultimatum: the company must provide a written guarantee that its online Street View project will follow German privacy laws by Wednesday at 10 am.
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Science & Technology: 27 Apr 09
Internet search engine Google plans to launch its controversial Street View feature in Germany soon, but users can register complaints before images of their street are made public, news magazine Focus reported on Monday.
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Science & Technology: 10 Jul 08
Cars mounted with roof-top cameras have been trolling the streets of Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt, taking pictures for Google’s “Street View” service. But German data protection officials fear it breaches citizens’ privacy.
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