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.'"

Comments

If you are out in public why expect privacy?

[capedgirardeau]

The law regarding this type of thing here in Switzerland drives me crazy.

You are out in public, you should have no expectation of privacy. Period, end of story.

What is next? Legislating that no one can look at anyone else in public? We all have to walk with our heads down so we don't accidentally see anyone else out on the street?

I am all for private data staying private, but when I am out in public, it is, get this: public information.