Google Street View

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When people spot Google's Street View cars driving by, they do the darnedest things.

A Swiss court has said that Google is breaching citizens’ right to privacy with its Street View service.

Diehard fanboys are often guilty of unruly, mean-spirited behavior, but most of these scuffles are relegated to online bulletin boards and comment threads. Not so in the case of Google devotees, who have inexplicably gone brutal -- and ridiculous -- in their defense of Google Street View.

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The U.K. joins the United States in giving search giant Google a wrist slap for collecting private data while building a database of photos for its Street View mapping service.

I hate to blame the victim, but people who inadvertently gave up personal data to Google's Street View cameras were really asking for trouble.

Google's Street View for Google Maps has finally reached Antarctica. Seriously, Google...what took you so long? Anyway, now that we have a map of all seven continents, let's take a trip around the globe.

It's official: Google's Street View has now officially reached all seven continents. Google today announced that it has added Brazil, Ireland, and Antarctica to its Street View library, which provides panoramic images of street-level scenes from locations around the world. It's a major milestone for Google's three-and-a-half year old service, but it's not one that will be universally celebrated, as Street View is now (and has been, almost since its launch) under fire for its alleged privacy violations and data collection practices.

More than a third of Brits (34 percent) have to attempt to take a sneak peek at where their favourite celebrity lives by 'stalking' then on Google's Street View.

Scotland's "horse boy" caught standing casually by a wall in Aberdeen.

As many as 30 states could join an investigation into Google's collection of personal information from unprotected wireless networks, Connecticut's attorney general said today.