SWISS COURT SAYS GOOGLE STREET VIEW VIOLATES PRIVACY

Switzerland’s top administrative court backed the Swiss privacy watchdog and ruled against Google Inc.’s Street View map service in Switzerland, saying the service infringes privacy in a ruling. Switzerland’s Federal Data Protection Commissioner Hanspeter Thuer and Google had been locked in a battle over the Web giant’s popular Street View application ever since the mapping service went live there in 2009.

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GOOGLE SETTLES PRIVACY CHARGES WITH FTC FOR BUZZ

Google settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges of deceptive privacy practices in its introduction last year of Buzz, the social networking tool in Gmail. Under the settlement, Google agreed to start a privacy program and undergo privacy audits for 20 years; it faces $16,000 fines for future privacy misrepresentations.

Read the article: http://ow.ly/4pMES (Source: The New York Times)