After Modifications, Google Street View Approved For Switzerland

An anonymous reader writes "Since Google began collecting Street View data in Europe a few years ago, many countries have taken it the company to court in order to settle privacy concerns. The NY Times reports that the last challenge to Street View's basic legality has been resolved. Switzerland's top court accepted that Google could only guarantee they would blur out 99% of faces, license plates, and other identifying markers, but also imposed some additional restrictions. 'Those conditions would require Google to lower the height of its Street View cameras so they would not peer over garden walls and hedges, to completely blur out sensitive facilities like women's shelters, prisons, retirement homes and schools, and to advise communities in advance of scheduled tapings.'"

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Switzerland is not a EU member

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is this tagged "eu" and has a EU flag? Switzerland is not a EU member.

Switzerland is not in EU

[orzetto]

Even if the article is tagged EU, it discusses only Switzerland, and Switzerland is not in the EU.

Re:As not to offend the well-heeled.

[mpoulton]

Where do you live that only rich people have fences or hedges? More importantly where all have you traveled that you've never seen towns where everyone has those things? I've lived all over the USA, and I'd in say about 1/3 to 1/2 of the places I've lived it's been common for most people to have fences or hedges for privacy. In Phoenix almost every house has a 6' block wall fence, including in very poor neighborhoods.