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EU Insite: Google Invading Privacy?
Studies show that over 70% of all users who use search engines, use Google. This week’s EU Insite takes a look at how Google’s push for more information has raised new concerns among EU officials.
With a market capitalisation of 96 billion euros, Google is one of the largest tech companies in the world. Recently, Google has developed Google Street View, a remarkable tool that allows web users to see actual street scenes at eye level when they map an address or intersection.
The tech giant says Google Street View is part of Google’s overall strategy to map, categorise and document everything in the world. Quite ambitious, to say the least. Google has already catalogued many of the streets in the largest cities in the United States
Officials with the European Union's data protection agency said Thursday that bringing the innovative product to Europe would raise problems.
"Making pictures everywhere is certainly going to create some problems," EU Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx said at a news conference. However, Hustinx also said he expected Google would be able to comply with laws.
Google has developed a tool that allows web users to see actual street scenes at eye level
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