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(AP) — Google Inc. says it has doubled the time Germans have to opt out of participation in its “Street View” feature, which has sparked a fierce public debate on privacy concerns.

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(AP) — Spain is investigating Google over its “Street View” mapping feature, becoming the latest country to tangle with the Internet search giant over concerns it violated people’s privacy while taking shots of city streets.

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South Korean police have searched the offices of Google Korea to investigate whether it breached privacy law in collecting information for its Street View service, an officer said.

South Korean police Tuesday searched the offices of Google Korea to investigate whether it breached privacy law in collecting information for its Street View service, an officer said.

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Internet giant Google will from next week allow Germans to opt-out of its disputed Street View navigation service ahead of its launch in the country this year, the company said Tuesday.

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The camera of a street-view car, used to photograph whole streets for Google maps. Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its “Street View” mapping service in Hong Kong, in what the city’s privacy commissioner said was a first.

Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its “Street [...]

(AP) — Google broke Australia’s privacy law when it collected private information from wireless networks, the country’s privacy commissioner said Friday, following an investigation into the Internet giant’s “Street View” mapping service.

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Picture taken on March 2010 shows the camera of a street view car, used to photograph whole streets. The attorney general of Connecticut is looking into whether Google broke the law by capturing people’s personal data from wireless networks while Street View bicycles and cars mapped streets.

The attorney general of Connecticut is looking into whether [...]

In this Oct. 2, 2006 file photo, a Google receptionist works at the front desk in the company’s office in New York. Australia announced a police investigation Sunday, June 6, 2010 into whether Google illegally collected private information from wireless networks, becoming at least the second country to probe the Internet giant’s “Street View” mapping [...]

Picture taken on March 2010 shows the camera of a street-view car, used to photograph whole streets. Google will begin handing over private data mistakenly gathered from wireless Internet connections to European regulations within the next two days, the Financial Times reported Friday.

Google will begin handing over private data mistakenly gathered from wireless Internet connections [...]

(AP) — Germany’s Foreign Minister has warned Google co-founder Larry Page to respect the nation’s data protection laws in an escalating dispute over the U.S. Internet giant’s “Street View” mapping program.

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