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, just two months after launching the popular 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 of cities and towns across the globe.
