Monday, April 16, 2012

Google accused of invading privacy with pictures of house numbers

Google has sparked a new privacy row by forcing users to decipher blurred photos of private house numbers to access their own accounts.

A Google Street View car

Internet users are being asked to read random property numbers snapped by Google's Street View cameras, as part of new security checks.

The tests weed out "bots" by ensuring that users are human. But Google has been accused of exploiting the data submitted in by the public for commercial gain - by adding the information to its own mapping system.

More at the UK Telegraph

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