Google Street View: arrives in Israel

Justice Department Requires a public hearing before the operation of the service, to keep privacy and confidential places in
Ministry of Justice requires that you have enabled Google Street View service in Thoachpap appropriate principles of privacy protection, and the issue will be a public hearing. The service allows anyone in the world to tour the streets of cities where the service starts, and look at the entire building volume. Justice Department's position at a meeting this morning will be a special ministerial committee to examine the operation of the service in Israel, at the request of Google, which wants to introduce the service in Israel. It is estimated that Google is interested in filming in Israel, but the company refuses to address the issue. Google has not yet applied for registration of the Ministry of Justice database to activate the service. However, government officials explained that the first security system to formulate a photo issue areas where there are security installations. As revealed in themarker, a special ministerial committee established to examine the service's leadership, headed by Minister Dan Meridor. The team will examine, among other things, which permits will be given mainly to Google security angle, but also deals with privacy issues and questions of franchise users. Google Street View service was criticized a lot due to invasion of privacy, since the passage of vehicles taken in cities picked as information about users, which is available wireless Internet networks that were spread out on the streets. The service has been operating in dozens of cities around the world. Since mid-2007 Google's car cruisers in the world, the United States through Western Europe, Japan, South Africa and Australia. The cars are equipped with cameras documenting peripheral in the streets from the perspective of a pedestrian. The result is a map of the city, which includes scanning of every street and structure. Every surfer in the world can "walk" the streets, stop and look at every building at peripheral. The Justice Ministry: "operation of the service in the world raised over a matter of privacy protection. Just recently found out that when collecting information abroad, Google also gathered information content of wireless Internet connections. "Position of authority and information technology law (Rmo"te), the Israeli regulator on data privacy protection, is on Google to various aspects of privacy protection regime in Israel, in light of the fact that this is a comprehensive photography of all public areas is also desirable to hear the Israeli public position on the subject. Beyond photography public space, Google gathers information about users of the service. Subject to the foregoing principles and application of appropriate information privacy protection by Google, will not be Lrmo"te activate resistance in Google Street View. "