Google stops service "Street View" after the discovery of errors in the data

Google stops service "Street View" after the discovery of errors in the data


Service raised the "Street View" launched by the company "Google" a giant of American technology many of the protests, which some consider that this type of programs can be appropriating the individual's privacy and threaten security.

And to resolve the protests stopped "Google" fleet of cars "Street View" after pleading that cars used to shoot the streets in urban areas for the application of maps of their own, were also collected footage included specific data at the time were passing through the networks of wireless is not encrypted .

For his part, apologized to Larry Page co-founder of "Google" in comments to German media for errors in the data collection service mapping of Google's U.S. search website. Page said in a statement to the newspaper "Welt" in Sunday's edition: "I am sorry. I certainly was wrong," according to the newspaper stated, "Times Union".

And when he criticized the consumer protection officials in Germany "Google" initially examined because of private networks, the company insisted they were not imagine any electronic data passes through networks, and fired prosecutors in the German city of Hamburg since a preliminary investigation in this case.

The Ilzh Aigner Minister for Consumer Protection in Germany, criticized in the past service, "Street View" of the "Google" which is used to show detailed pictures of streets and buildings to ground level on the Internet.

Aigner and sought to prevent the use of Street View service in Germany, saying it violated their privacy and could encourage the robberies.

The "Google" in her blog that the collection of data in this way caused by an error in programming in 2006, stressing that they did not use all this data in any form.

Street View .. A history of problems



Despite the constant concern to development by Google for this service, but the problems has trailed it since its launch, it has yielded Google to U.S. pressure and made some adjustments to serve "Street View", where the erasing features the streets of Manhattan, New York and that in principle, to be gradually expand this ban to include the rest of the areas famous.

The amendments made by the Google service to obscure some of the features of the faces of people and buildings, and plates, as is done completely on the screen of the news channels, when he wants organizers of the station to hide the identity of a particular person, so can not the viewer to identify the individual speaker because of his position sensor.

This initiative has been applied initially in the United States because more stringent privacy regulations, where he was this service a detailed picture of the streets, car license plates and Trademark Office, to be reconsidered in its application in European cities such as Paris, Rome and Milan.

Said Peter Fleischer is responsible for privacy in Google: "We know that Europe is under way to assess differences between the public, and individual privacy .. enjoyed it very all viewpoints, customs and laws vary from country to country, and will do everything we can to respect these differences.

The spokesman noted that the amendment conducted by Google, this service will take a little time, so that the company modify and adjust the image already available on the Internet.

And Google said it since it offered the service of the charts for the first time there was no disagreement, even before the military institutions Kalpntegon for example, in America, and the complaints of privacy by citizens are still few in number, however, it decided to change its policies by agreeing to delete the faces of the boards cars at the request of the Pentagon.

Was raised huge controversy and resentment more aggressive defenders of privacy in the United States, where a service that displays the images to zoom in on the streets of San Francisco and New York and Las Vegas, Miami and Denver to a fierce competition between various web sites to monitor the footage was being raised in conditions of embarrassing.

These snapshots, for example, a picture from the back of a man urinating and a man and a woman Mamddan in the sun on the grass has broke some clothes and a young woman into sexy lingerie and a young man climbing a fence and another enters the shop for magazines porn and man hugs a girl on the sidewalk and others.

Although the footage does not include anything supernatural, but it is possible to identify to passers-by, which stirred controversy in the United States despite the publication of legislation this country imagery in public places, including pictures of passers-by, which is not allowed in many countries including France.

And put some of these problems, more accurate shots, such as a picture of a clinic in Miami are abortions has asked its Director Elaine Diamond from Google "replacement" in another way, pointing to the emergence of demonstrators against abortion in front of the entrance to the clinic in the current image.

Protested Jeicki spokeswoman Rebecca "Electronic Frontier Foundation" defending privacy on the Internet, pointing out that "it is tantamount to interference in private life for many people who are photographed in the scenes of Google."

It is worth mentioning that the service "Street View" using cameras found on the roofs of cars in many American cities to capture images of streets and buildings.

You can see these pictures to go to the site "Google Maps" and then clicking on the "Street View" and then typing the address to see the pictures of the site required.