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Google Street View is going indoors. Starting today, folks can explore 17 museums around the world using Google’s Street View technology, the search giant announced in . Dubbed Art Project, the initiative lets users view artwork from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the National Gallery in London, [...]

The camera of a Google street-view car. The US state of Connecticut said Friday it would hold negotiations with Google over the collection of private wireless data by its Street View mapping cars and not take the Internet giant to court. The US state of Connecticut said Friday it would hold negotiations with Google over [...]

Back in 2001, Larry Page wasn’t ready to lead Google’s 200 employees. Ten years later, with 24,400 employees, Page takes control of a much more complex operation, and both still have much to prove. Ready or not, it’s Page’s company now, following news that former CEO Eric Schmidt would be moving up and out of [...]

A Google street view car. Google said Friday it was strengthening its privacy and security practices after its “Street View” mapping service gathered private wireless data, including emails and passwords, in dozens of countries. Google pledged Friday to strengthen its privacy and security practices after its “Street View” mapping service gathered private wireless data, including [...]

Google Street View is coming to Germany in the next few weeks, but nearly 3 percent of homes will be blurred, the company said today. Since April 2009, Germans have been able to petition the search company to have their homes blurred in Street View images, Google said in today’s blog post. Initially, those folks [...]

Picture taken on March 2010 shows the camera of a street-view car, used to photograph whole streets, on the Google street-view stand at the CeBIT fair in Hanover. The German government told Google and its competitors in online map services Monday to come up with their own guidelines on data protection by December or face [...]

A student employed by Google rides a tricycle fitted with cameras as part of the Google Street View project in Paris in 2009. Google says it has resumed photographing France with its Street View bikes and cars but without gathering fragments of personal data sent over unsecured Wi-Fi systems for which it is being probed. [...]

A Google “Street View” car in Hanover Germany in March 2010. Google’s “Street View” cars will return to the road next week but all wireless scanning equipment has been removed after a controversy over the collection of private information. Google’s “Street View” cars will return to the road next week but all wireless scanning equipment [...]

Arthur Poirier, a French student employed by Google France, rides a tricycle fitted with cameras as part of the Google Street View project, in Paris in August 2009. France’s data protection agency announced it is examining private data, including emails, collected by Google Street View, to decide if the firm should face criminal charges or [...]

Nearly three weeks after admitting that it had sniffed sensitive data from open wireless networks around the world, Google is now facing at least seven U.S. class-action lawsuits over its practice. The first lawsuit was filed on May 17 on behalf of Vicki Van Valin of Oregon and Neil Mertz of Washington. Since then, the [...]