Grumbles as Google "Street View" cars begin prowling Budapest
Google's data collection practices in Budapest for its Street View application has raised privacy concerns, Hungary's data protection ombudsman Andras Jori said in a statement sent to MTI on Thursday.
Google cars arrived in Budapest on Tuesday to scan the city and take photographs for its searchable street map feature.
"The legal basis of data management by Street View and other similar services is not clear," Jori said, adding that it was also not specified how people captured in a photograph would be able to exercise their rights to privacy.
Jori is a member of the European Union's Data Protection Working Group, which is already investigating Google Street View's activities. He said that he would monitor the company's practices and see whether they infringed on privacy rights.
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