Living vicariously just got a bit more exciting. Google Maps had added some of the most famous (and highest) mountains in the world to Street View. The list includes Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus and Everest Base Camp — four members of the Seven Summits, letting you explore some of the …
The US Federal Trade Commission fined Google $22.5 million for violating the privacy of people who used rival Apple’s Safari web browser even after pledging not to do so. The FTC said Google had agreed with the commission in October 2011 not to place tracking cookies on or deliver targeted ads to …
Pranksters have been playing tricks on Google’s Street View cameras ever since the mapping tool was first launched in 2007, but miscreants in Victoria have delivered a low blow. Street View images of Long Gully and Maiden Gully near Bendigo in Victoria have been defaced with a giant green penis …
Google is expanding its Street View service into some of the world’s most remote places. It will photograph the Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers of northwest Brazil in partnership with charity Foundation for a Sustainable Amazon (FAS). Google will train local people to collect images, and will leave behind equipment …
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GThNZH5Q1yY[/video]What is the ‘Art Project’? A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museum’s galleries, selecting works of art that …
Google Street View’s German launch has truly been like no other. Germany is not like Brazil, where Street View seemed to unearth more dead bodies on sidewalks than can be seen in the whole repertoire of “Law and Order.” For Germany’s bodies are alive with mystery. And no mystery can …
Italy’s privacy regulator has told Google Inc it will have to make sure its “Street View” photo-collecting cars are clearly marked and their itinerary is publicized, a daily newspaper reported on Saturday. Under the regulator’s decision, Google has to publish three days in advance on its website, in local newspapers …
A woman has told of her horror after Google published a photograph of her young son naked on the internet. Claire Rowlands, 25, was stunned to see the image of Louis mears playing on a sunny day in his grandmother’s garden in Walkden, Greater Manchester. Louis, three, had been snapped …
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are investigating Google over a possible breach of the telecommunications interception act which took place when the company captured data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks. The possible infringement may have occurred when Google cars, mounted with special cameras, cruised Australian streets to capture images for its …
Google said Friday it will no longer collect WiFi network information for its Street View mapping service after “mistakenly” gathering personal wireless data. “Maintaining people’s trust is crucial to everything we do, and in this case we fell short,” Alan Eustace, a Google senior vice president for engineering and research, …
Google Australia will today be sent a “please explain” letter from two local privacy organisations demanding to know why the company has been collecting personal Wi-Fi network data from Australian homes alongside the images it takes with its Street View cameras. The letter comes in response to recent reports that …
Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Sweden and large parts of Canada. But it’s in Norway where we’ve now uncovered one of the most utterly bizarre sightings we’ve ever seen on Street View. On arrival to this residential street in Bergen, the Google camera car …