The European Union has ordered Google to delete images captured for its Street View service after six months.
Street View, which was made available in the UK last year, is an add-on to Google Maps and Google Earth that allows users to see street-level photographs of a number of cities.
The images are captured by specially adapted Google Street View cars that travel the UK taking photographs. However, the service has attracted a number of privacy concerns.
Google holds Street View images for a year but the EU's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has said the search engine must cut this in half, as 12 months is a "disproportionate" length of time.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9162798/
Street View, which was made available in the UK last year, is an add-on to Google Maps and Google Earth that allows users to see street-level photographs of a number of cities.
The images are captured by specially adapted Google Street View cars that travel the UK taking photographs. However, the service has attracted a number of privacy concerns.
Google holds Street View images for a year but the EU's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has said the search engine must cut this in half, as 12 months is a "disproportionate" length of time.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9162798/