The European Union urged Google to provide people advance notice when its Street View vehicles are roving European streets to take pictures and asked that these images be deleted after six months. Google responded that its current retention period of one year is necessary to maintain the quality of the Street View service. Alex Turk, head of an EU data protection group, called Google’s one-year retention period disproportionate, and said that maximum retention of 6 months for the unblurred copies of the images would strike the right balance between the protection of privacy and the ability to eliminate false positives.
– The European Union called for Google to provide people advance notice when
its Street View vehicles are roving European streets to take pictures and asked
that these images be deleted after six months.
Google responded that its current retention period of one year is necessary
to maintain the qu…