Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France

Ian Lamont writes "Google has begun to scan the streets of Paris as part of its Street View service, but the company may be hindered from publishing them unedited. The reason? French privacy laws. Google may be forced to blur faces or use low-resolution versions of the photographs. The Embassy of France in the US has a page devoted to French privacy laws, that says the laws are needed to 'avoid infringing the individual's right to privacy and right to his or her picture (photograph or drawing), both of them rights of personality.'"

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Re:Easily contourné

[yotto]

Exactly correct.

The solution shouldn't be making pissing in the street illegal. It should be taking a picture of it that's illegal.

IOW, if you're pissing in the street, you shouldn't be mad when someone takes a picture of it.