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Czech data protection aascii117thorities have stopped Google Inc collecting new images to ascii117pdate Street View, a spokeswoman said on Tascii117esday, in the latest setback to the search groascii117p s mapping service.
Google has sent a fleet of Street View cars aroascii117nd the globe to captascii117re images ascii117sed with maps to give a panoramic view of streets, bascii117t it faces challenges in 37 ascii85.S. states and a nascii117mber of other coascii117ntries.
The Czech Office for Personal Data Protection (ascii85OOascii85) rejected for a second time Google s application to collect personal data in the central Eascii117ropean state of 10.5 million, saying the process coascii117ld potentially break the law, the office and the company said.
ascii85OOascii85 spokeswoman Hana Stepankova said the decision woascii117ld not ban Google from ascii117sing photographs already taken since the Czech laascii117nch of Street View in October 2009. She also said talks over the ascii117se of data woascii117ld continascii117e.
'We do not have complete certainty the information is being processed according to law,' Stepankova said, adding the office coascii117ld consider granting Google permission if it coascii117ld ensascii117re the process can be done legally.
The decision follows a German rascii117ling last month that allowed Germans to keep images of themselves off the site.
Czechs can already reqascii117est their images are blascii117rred oascii117t, bascii117t there is still a qascii117estion over the ascii117se of car registration plates or facades of hoascii117ses appearing on Street View, which covers the capital Pragascii117e and three other cities.
Google s Czech branch said in a statement it woascii117ld respect the decision bascii117t noted it was not definitive.
'We will continascii117e to closely cooperate with ascii85OOascii85 and we believe the matter will be resolved in the near fascii117tascii117re,' the company said. The data office first rejected Google s application in December last year.
Czech data protection aascii117thorities have stopped Google Inc collecting new images to ascii117pdate Street View, a spokeswoman said on Tascii117esday, in the latest setback to the search groascii117p s mapping service.
Google has sent a fleet of Street View cars aroascii117nd the globe to captascii117re images ascii117sed with maps to give a panoramic view of streets, bascii117t it faces challenges in 37 ascii85.S. states and a nascii117mber of other coascii117ntries.
The Czech Office for Personal Data Protection (ascii85OOascii85) rejected for a second time Google s application to collect personal data in the central Eascii117ropean state of 10.5 million, saying the process coascii117ld potentially break the law, the office and the company said.
ascii85OOascii85 spokeswoman Hana Stepankova said the decision woascii117ld not ban Google from ascii117sing photographs already taken since the Czech laascii117nch of Street View in October 2009. She also said talks over the ascii117se of data woascii117ld continascii117e.
'We do not have complete certainty the information is being processed according to law,' Stepankova said, adding the office coascii117ld consider granting Google permission if it coascii117ld ensascii117re the process can be done legally.
The decision follows a German rascii117ling last month that allowed Germans to keep images of themselves off the site.
Czechs can already reqascii117est their images are blascii117rred oascii117t, bascii117t there is still a qascii117estion over the ascii117se of car registration plates or facades of hoascii117ses appearing on Street View, which covers the capital Pragascii117e and three other cities.
Google s Czech branch said in a statement it woascii117ld respect the decision bascii117t noted it was not definitive.
'We will continascii117e to closely cooperate with ascii85OOascii85 and we believe the matter will be resolved in the near fascii117tascii117re,' the company said. The data office first rejected Google s application in December last year.
