
New Delhi: Internet giant Google's long awaited and very ambitious project Streetview is ready to map and explore everything on Indian streets with its new application Google Streetview. This software will show you everything from a high rise to a small restaurant. Google Streetview unlike Google earth allows you a 360 degree view of your favourite street. The sophisticated cameras mounted on this vehicle continuously takes photos of a particular...

07:34 AM, Jun 02, 2011

New Delhi: Internet giant Google's long awaited and very ambitious project Streetview is ready to map and explore everything on Indian streets with its new application Google Streetview. This software will show you everything from a high rise to a small restaurant. Google Streetview unlike Google earth allows you a 360 degree view of your favourite street. The sophisticated cameras mounted on this vehicle continuously takes photos of a particular...

07:34 AM, Jun 02, 2011

Bangalore: Google announced its plans to offer Street View of Indian cities on its Maps platform. "We are launching the Street View project from Bangalore as it is the IT capital of India where IT-savvy users will be able to leverage the benefits of the facility optimally," Google India product head Vinay Goel told reporters here at a preview of its latest product. As a user-friendly feature of Google Maps,...

03:50 PM, May 26, 2011

San Francisco: Google Inc admitted for the first time its "Street View" cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed - including complete emails and passwords - potentially breathing new life into probes in various countries. The disclosure comes just days after Canada's privacy watchdog said Google had collected complete emails and accused Google of violating the rights of thousands of Canadians. "If in fact laws...

02:57 PM, Oct 23, 2010

Vancouver: Canada's privacy watchdog accused Google Inc on Tuesday of violating the rights of thousands of Canadians by inappropriately collecting their personal information in building its Street View service. Google must tighten its privacy protection systems to prevent a repeat of the incident, blamed on a careless software engineer, and should get rid of the data it accidentally collected, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said. "Our investigation shows that Google did...

11:31 AM, Oct 20, 2010

Berlin: Germany's government urged the Internet industry on Monday to produce a voluntary data protection code to cover services like Google Inc.'s "Street View" mapping service. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere met with representatives of Google and Apple Inc. among others after Google's plans to introduce "Street View" in Germany ignited concerns in the privacy-conscious country over the extent to which people's personal data are accessible on the Internet. De...

12:09 PM, Sep 21, 2010

Berlin Hundreds of thousands of Germans have requested their homes be kept out of Google's Street View mapping service, a German magazine reported. Citing company sources, weekly Der Spiegel said "several hundred thousand" tenants had already objected to inclusion in the Google service, which uses camera-equipped fleets of cars to take panoramic pictures of cities for its online atlas. The firm itself would not give concrete figures, it added. The...

12:39 PM, Sep 20, 2010

Britain's entire wireless network has been mapped by Google's street view car fitted with radio aerials. ...

10:56 AM, Jun 01, 2010

Google is to allow German data protection officers to examine one of its controversial Street View cars. ...

02:03 PM, May 27, 2010

US lawmakers want to know how much personal data Google has gathered through its project to photograph streets. ...

10:36 AM, May 27, 2010

Google has been vacuuming up fragments of people's online activities over Wi-Fi networks for the past four years. ...

11:34 AM, May 15, 2010