Italy, running on sight for Street View – Computer Point

Rome – When Street View began to scrutinize the museums and archaeological sites, go to the parks and to immortalize the beaches, the Privacy Italian did not fail to warn Google: the eye of the service mapping will always be evident, its presence must be reported in advance, so as to guarantee citizens the possibility of escape.

The measure of ‘ Italian authority, which since 2010 has followed with concern the delve of Street View in the road network of the beautiful country and that in recent months has sanctioned Google for having been barely recognizable in their mapping operations, following the announcement in which Google has informed want to continue, even in Italy, with “Special Collects”, namely the “collecting images in unique locations and remote, including those with special natural value, historical and tourist” to return a look in the round on the wonders of the world. Mountain View, in September, had made it clear to the Guarantor the specificity of the mapping, made “on foot, by means of special equipment mounted on a backpack (cd. Trekker), or even, depending on the type of places,” through a boat or a train “and had assured that it would proceed with the utmost caution, respe cting the rights of citizens.

This is why Mountain View is committed to proceed with the collection of images in times where environments immortalized are closed to the public and, in the case of open spaces such as beaches, parks, archaeological sites and trails, “at times when it is less likely to encounter passersby.” Since it is impossible to exclude immortalize someone accidentally, Google reassured about the authority to run in obfuscation mechanisms of faces, details of the housing and automobile license plates and ask about the possibility of removal and blurring even more targeted.

Google has however asked the Supervisor be relieved from the obligation to report transactions mapping in advance by radio and newspapers, also by virtue of the ” public interest to promote and protect territories (…) and places that are special and unique “: communicate with advance passage of the cameras of the service could trigger an opposite reaction, with concentrations of onlookers in areas that can not accommodate crowds.

The Italian authority has granted the requests and commitments of Mountain View and ordered that Google makes its own publication of notices on their websites and the page reference in the three days preceding the collection of the images, and on the websites, in newsletters and publications of the organizations and institutions that manage the facilities and spaces that Google is going to be mapped.
Google must guarantee visibility to its trekker and people manipulating them also during the mapping operations, with reports and alerts, with “stickers, signs or other distinguishing marks visible “affixed to the equipment and on clothing of workers at work: the Supervisor prescribes” indicate, unequivocally, that you are acquiring photographs snapshots be published online through the service Google Special Collects within Street View on Google Maps for publication “.

Gaia Bottà