Google forced to pull UK Street View images

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Google has already had to pull images from its Google Maps Street View tool launched in the UK last week, after a number of early testers registered privacy complaints with the service, identifying images of themselves captured in the photos.


The tool, available for 25 UK cities, gives users a 360 degree view of particular streets through merging photos collected by Google drivers using car-mounted cameras. Images taken down so far include a man vomiting in Shoreditch and another man outside a Soho sex shop. Replacing them is now a ...

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