Street View: Google Car firm in India - Less than a month after the beginning of operations for the mapping of the territory of India to street level, the Mountain View company has been forced to temporarily park their Google Car , compared to a formal request made by the Bangalore Police. Yet the mystery of the reasons that led to a similar decision, although regarded as the previous service Street View , can not exclude the possibility that the source of the stop there is doubt about the effective protection of privacy.
After receiving the go-ahead by the institutions, Google had started in late May its titanic enterprise aimed to take panoramic photos to the main (and sometimes impractical) ways of ' India , with the aim of then insert the images in the country ' huge database of Street View on Google Maps .
A choice dictated by the need not to lose ground against the competition, especially in an area that is making strong growth from the economic point of view, and that can provide interesting insights for the business of search engine in California.
The company should shelve the project, however, at least until it will shed light on the issue and lifted the ban on circulating the Google Car. For now bigg merely to confirm the stop sign, through the statement of a spokesman, without going into detail about his reasons. The most likely hypothesis, as quoted in the opening, however, regards the possible infringement of the privacy of the residents or foreigners in India.
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