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Google adds Street View to driving directions

Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 30 April 2008 02:30

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Street View covers 44 regions of the US, and Google has been photographing Australian cities in preparation for an extension to the service. Google provides an API so developers can incorporate Street View in other applications.

The Street View service has been criticised on privacy grounds. For example, images have captured people entering less than wholesome premises that could cause them embarrassment as well as vehicle number plates. A Google spokesperson has said the company is working on ways to ensure that faces and licence plates are not identifiable in its Australian images.

Legal action has been brought in the US against Google for entering private land to take photographs used in Street View.

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