Swiss Federal Supreme Court relaxes Google Street View anonymity ruling
| 
Author: Janet Odell
Author: Janet Odell
Google’s international privacy issues were lightened a little yesterday when the Swiss Federal Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision that Google Street View images must be completely anonymous. The ruling recognized that the lower court’s order was unrealistic, and said that “it must be accepted that up to a maximum of one percent of the images uploaded are insufficiently anonymized.” Google had previously stated that its software could blur 98-99 percent of images automatically.
While the court won’t require Google to maintain complete anonymity across the board, it also ruled that the search giant must make it easier for people to have their images manually blurred and, in certain sensitive areas, must ensure complete…
Popular Posts:
- Installing Virtue OLED Board & Laser Eyes in Dye DM9 Paintball Gun
- Bridging Digital and Physical Worlds With SixthSense
- Official Angry Birds 3 Star Walkthrough Theme 3 Levels 1-5
- HTC Schubert
- Sketching Out a Future for the Stylus
Incoming search terms:
- powered by SMF shore regional
- Powered by Article Dashboard shore regional
- Powered by Article Dashboard reuters world news
- powered by SMF fox run regional park
Tags: 
