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Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-surrendering dept.

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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  1. Obligatory Frog Jab by pipingguy · · Score: 0, Troll

    What, La Resistance? Quelle surprise!

  2. Re:When in Rome... by concernedadmin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or in this case, Paris. The law is the law, and Google need to respect the local laws.
    (emphasis mine) Why exactly? Google is a U.S. based corporation, right? So if anything, shouldn't the people that should have to worry about laws be Parisians, not Google?
  3. Only an idiot... by Anita+Coney · · Score: 0, Troll

    Only an idiot would think people have a right to privacy while in public. But, as we're talking about the French, this isn't too surprising.

    --
    If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
  4. So when in SS Germany.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...kill the Jews, like the good Fuhrer asks you to? Or when in Muhammad's Araby, kill the infidel, like the Good Koran asks you to? Or when in Taliban Afghanistan's, kill the Satan American, like the head mullah asks you to?