Google's Street View expansion brings privacy jitters
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Google's expansion of the street view option for its mapping service into another eight US cities has renewed privacy concerns over what it photographs.
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Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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The debate is raging over whether the search engine's new street photos are too up close and personal
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Maps feature isn't yet available in Canada, but if it was its high-resolution images could violate citizens' privacy rights, privacy chief says in letter to Google.
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Google Inc. is shortening the life span of its "cookie" data-tracking file &#151; but it's not clear whether the move would do much to enhance privacy.
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The Street View feature of Google Maps, with its close-up views of city streets and recognizable shots of people, could violate a Canadian law protecting individual privacy, officials said on Wednesday.
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Wants out, Google gives him a grilling Google's Street View service is barely two weeks old and it's already attracted plenty of criticism from privacy advocates. Photographing people up close and without warning as they go about their daily routines and then publishing those images for all the world to see may tread just a teensy bit over the line, they say.â¦
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Some parts of images of India found on Google Earth are to be blurred following security concerns.
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Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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Google, a frequent target of privacy advocates, yesterday called for new international standards on the collection and use of consumer data.
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Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group. The group is seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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In A Race to the Bottom: Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies, Privacy International spray-paints the fa&ccedil;ades of landmark companies that line today's Main Street on the Web. The painted colors are assessments of each company's performance on privacy issues. Though the rankings are colorful, what they say isn't pretty.  Nobody in the &quot;interim rankings&quot; (.pdf) gets the top (green) mark for &quot;Privacy-friendly and privacy enhancing&quot;. The bottom (black) mark, for &quot;Comprehensive consumer surveillance &amp; entrenched hostility to privacy&quot;, goes to just one company: Google.
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The apparent release of searches made by hundreds of thousands of users is raising privacy concerns.
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New Web ads respond to your activities--and this has privacy advocates worried.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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If you use shared or public computers, you have a new privacy risk to consider: Google Desktop Search. Announced last week and currently available in a beta version, Google Desktop Search allows you to scour
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Blog: CNET News.com is looking for the best images from Google's new Street View feature illustrating personal elements