Officials who hail from the land of the majestic Alps are hopping-mad with the suits at google for ignoring Switzerland's privacy laws.
According to Hanspeter Thuer, the Federal Data Protection Commissioner, images that Google captured on the sly for inclusion in their world-wide mapping service failed to obscure the identities of pedestrians in plain view on Swiss streets required by law.
Ooops!
The precision watch-makes are touchy enough about disclosing bank account numbers.
Surely - the worldly-wise data crunchers at Google were hip to the fact that capturing a mug on camera in Switzerland without permission - was a definite no-no from the get-go!
On the heels of a demand that the revealing photographs be deleted from web sites currently offering them up to Internet users here and abroad, the powers-that-be at Google allegedly agreed (red-faced, no doubt) to "work" with the Swiss Government to resolve the issues.
I thought googling myself was bad.
Now I can't even do that in private, eh?
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