The next time you see a Google Street View car cruising down your block, it might be doing more than just snapping photos — it could be tracking air pollution.
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Google Slaps Air Pollution Monitoring Systems On Street View Cars In San Francisco
By 7.29.15
Google Maps Adding Underwater Photos Of World’s Oceans To Street View
By 8.14.14
Nemo might never have been so hard to find, if only his ocean had a good map of the local reefs. Wayward fish with knowledge of technology will be in luck — as will anyone yearning for a view under the sea — as Google Maps is adding 360-degree Street View photos of our oceans’ coral reefs. [More]
SCOTUS: Google Must Face Lawsuit That Its Street View Data Collection Invaded Consumers’ Privacy
By 6.30.14
The Supreme Court was busy on Monday, not only did it make a ruling in the long-awaited Hobby Lobby case, but it also declared that Google must face a lawsuit over privacy invasions that occurred while gathering Street View data. [More]
Google Street View Now Goes Back In Time All The Way To Ye Olden Days Of 2007
By 4.24.14
Ah, those misty, water-colored memories of the time way back in 2007, when we had a different guy in the White House and the word “selfie” wasn’t the bane of social conversations yet. If you’ve got a hankering for days gone by, Google’s updated Street View imagery can take you back in time — only so far as seven years though, so don’t go looking for your childhood treehouse to suddenly appear on the map. [More]
Google In Hot Water For Collecting Data From Your Wireless Networks
By 6.22.10
A group of attorneys general have decided to go ahead with a multi-state investigation of the Google Streets View project after it was revealed that the cars it uses to capture the images were also capturing data from people’s home and business wireless networks. The capturing was done in 30 countries and the government of France says that it included people’s passwords and email.
Google says they were capturing the data “inadvertently” and that the quality of the data was poor because the cars were moving. [More]
Google's Street View Is All Up In Your Driveway Looking At Your Basketball Hoop
By 4.8.08
The couple, Aaron and Catherine Boring, have succeeded in getting the photos yanked from the site, but the industrious minds over at the Smoking Gun found another even more intrusive set of photos taken by the search giant.
