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Swiss take Google to court over Street View

By Maija Palmer, Technology Correspondent

Published: November 13 2009 13:11 | Last updated: November 13 2009 18:57

The Swiss data protection watchdog is taking Google to the country’s Federal Administrative Court over an alleged failure to protect people’s privacy on its Street View website, two months after launching the service in Switzerland.

Hanspeter Thür, the federal data protection and information commissioner, said Google had not done enough to make faces and vehicle number plates unrecognisable on the service, which provides panoramic, street-level photos.

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