Google removes dozens of photos from UK Street View service

August 7th, 2009 Odd tricyle mapping Paris streets for GooglePARIS — Parisians and tourists, relax. That goofy-looking tricycle equipped with loads of high-tech equipment roaming the streets is not some mad scientist's invention on the rampage.

June 19th, 2009 Thief view: Police nab twins snapped on GoogleTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch police have arrested twin brothers on suspicion of robbery after their alleged victim spotted a picture of them following him on Google's Street View map application, a spokesman said Friday. Paul Heidanus, a police spokesman in the town of Groningen, said he believed it was the first time Street View images had been used in a Dutch criminal investigation.

June 19th, 2009 Google tricycle snaps views on Penn's campusPHILADELPHIA — Coming soon to a campus near you — the Google tricycle. A pedicab-like vehicle with an 8-foot-high camera is rolling around the walkways at the University of Pennsylvania to collect 360-degree views for the "Street View" feature of Google Maps.

June 17th, 2009 Google cedes to German demand to erase dataBERLIN — Google Inc. is willing to concede to German demands the company erase photos for its panoramic mapping service after they have been processed, a data protection official said Wednesday.

June 14th, 2009 LONDON - Google's new plan to photograph every roadside in Britain for its Street View service has drawn flak from the public, which claims that it is an invasion of privacy. Now, the Internet search engine's camera cars are being banned from entering private roads and prevented from filming in some villages by human barricades, the Times Online reports.

May 14th, 2009 Google glitch disrupts search engine, e-mailMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google says it has fixed the technical problems that have prevented an unknown number of people from using its Internet search engine, e-mail and other services.

May 13th, 2009 Google to reshoot street views of Japanese citiesTOKYO — Google said Wednesday it will reshoot all photos in Japan for its Street View service after residents complained the 360-degree panoramic images provided a view over the fences around their homes. The Internet giant's service has triggered privacy complaints around the world, including most recently in Greece, where it was banned Tuesday.

May 13th, 2009 ATHENS - Greece's data protection agency has stopped Google from continuing to photograph the country's streets for its Street View service and asked further reassurances on privacy from the US Internet giant, media reports said Wednesday, Street View provides users a 360-degree view of the urban landscape via an icon on Google Maps. The Greek authority wants Google to specify how long it intends to keep its images online and what measures the search engine intends to take to inform residents who may be photographed of their rights.

May 12th, 2009 Google's Street View halted in GreeceATHENS, Greece — A privacy watchdog has banned the Internet giant Google Inc. from gathering images in Greece for its Street View service until it provides additional privacy guarantees.

May 12th, 2009 Google's Street View halted in Greece over privacyATHENS, Greece — A privacy watchdog has banned Google Inc. from gathering detailed, street-level images in Greece for a planned expansion of its panoramic Street View mapping service until the company provides additional privacy safeguards.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - A British woman, who was using Google's new Street View service to find her friends, found a fleet of UFOs in formation instead. A photograph of the nine silver spheres hovering above a row of shops, including a Coral bookies, was taken by Faye Sharpe, 18, as she viewed her neighbourhood of Wolverley Street in Bethnal Green, East London.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - Google Street View cameras have captured something that could send shivers down your spine - a 'ghostly' figure dressed in Victorian clothes. The ghoul has been filmed at a former Victorian docklands, which has a dark and sinister past.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher was photographed by Google's new mapping service as he was having a beer. The 36-year-old Gallagher was having a drink at Street View, reported thesun.co.uk.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - E.T. has finally been tracked down - in a picture taken for Google Street View.

March 18th, 2009 MADRID - Content from eight of the national news agencies that own the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) is to be made available on the Internet via Google News, under a new accord announced here. Users of Google News will be able to access both text and photos from the participating agencies, EPA and Google said in a joint statement Tuesday.