In court over Google Street View in Switzerland, Google is losing and ordered to strengthen privacy protection

In March 2011The French authorities fined 100,000 euros (about 11.5 million yen) against the fact that the Google Street View shooting car was collecting personal information via wireless LANAlthough it is also a memory new place, the side of Google was lost in a trial on Google Street View this time in Switzerland.

Google judged that most plaintiffs' claims were accepted as "there is a problem from the viewpoint of protection of personal information" and Google will respond to such as blurring processing by hand in order to strengthen protection of privacy I was ordered. For facilities around which facilities such as hospitals and others are particularly required to protect privacy, more processing than usual is required.

The content of the judgment submitted to Google is as follows.Google tried to protect Street View's personal information, Google lost. - swissinfo


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The Swiss Federal Administrative Court approved the majority of personal information protection measures that Hans Peter Tulle of the Federal Information Protection and Transparency Division had requested on April 4.

In September 2009, Mr. Tulle requested Google to improve private protection in Street View, but since Google rejected the majority of it as it realized the proposal, the Federal Administrative Court in Bern It is said to have filed a lawsuit against.

The court ruled that Google ordered Google to satisfy almost all Mr. Türl's request and so Google is obligated to make manual corrections to ensure that people's face and vehicle number can not be fully recognized I decided to bear it.

According to the Information Protection and Transparency Maintenance Division, the face that automatically blurs is about 98% of the whole, although the processing of putting blurring on the face of a person and the license plate of a car is still carried out now even by automatic processing, To say that. Then it seems that it will be blurred manually for the part where correspondence is insufficient. It also means that it is possible for citizens to ask Google directly for blurring in certain places.

Especially the problem was,Domestic violenceFrauenhaus "where victims of victims evacuate, schools, courts, social welfare authorities, hospitals, and other facilities with delicate circumstances. The photographs related to these facilities had to be completely protected privacy, and it was complained that not only the face but also personal characteristics such as skin color and clothes must be removed.

Furthermore, in addition to announcement at the start site of Google Maps which was done until now, it is necessary to announce on the local newspaper about the recording plan and the image release on the net. Also, an instruction was given that the courtyard and the front yard which can not be peeped by "ordinary passersby" should also be reflected.

According to the ruling this time, everyone owns the right to the photograph that he / she photographed, so basically it should not be photographed without the approval of the person himself, It is said that it applies also to the case where the shooting of a person is not a purpose, and it is reflected as a part of the landscape.

Meanwhile, Google's Global Information Protection Peter Fleischer said: "Every 4 Swiss people have already used Street View since the start, which is a very useful service for millions of people Although it should be supposed, this sentence has declined and I am very disappointed. " As for this matter, it is possible that Google may appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States in Lausanne.