Google Photos Stir a Debate Over Privacy
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A new online feature of Google Maps called Street View is stirring up a debate over privacy concerns on the Web.
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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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Google Maps can be a bit of a shutterbug these days.
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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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Bottom for privacy, but top for smearing Privacy International's (PI) research into privacy practises at internet service companies put Google in last place.â¦
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - 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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Just like Ask.com Unable to keep up with Google's market share, the other big search engines are determined to top its privacy policies. Last week, Ask.com announced new software that keeps web searches completely anonymous - a first among major search engines - and now Microsoft and Yahoo! have unveiled their own brand-spanking-new privacy principles.â¦
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE  SAN FRANCISCO -- 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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Street-scene photographs added to Google Maps and Earth last week capture passers-by in delicate situations and have privacy advocates accusing the world&#39;s most popular Internet search firm of breaking its own &quot;Don&#39;t be Evil&quot; code.
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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 has responded to a U.S. congressman&#39;s series of questions about its privacy practices, with the company defending its use of consumer data.
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Technological changes and  personal privacy have been at odds ever since modern notions of  privacy emerged more than a century ago.
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Google is being investigated by the European Union over possible violation of the bloc's privacy rules. At issue is the search engine's practice of retaining user information for up to two years.
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Google deal prompts Federal Trade Commission to recently propose a set of privacy principles for online behavioral advertising.
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Privacy is going to be an increasing concern as more and more photographs embed information about the location where they were taken.
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Opinion: Whether they realize it or not, many people leave sensitive information out in plain view on Web sites. But sooner or later, a Google search will dig it up.
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.