[governance] Google Japan To Help Victims of Street View Abuse

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

See: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/09/06/0152201
And:

"After repeated concerns from Japanese citizens over
privacy rights violations involving Street View and a probe by Japan's
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, http://www.google.co.jp/
Google Japan has
announced that http://www.examiner.com/x-16352-Japan-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m9d4-Google-Japan-fights-concerns-about-Street-View
it will help victims of Street View photo abuse take action against offending sites. Google Japan 
said it would send requests to the sites for removal of maliciously used 
Street View images. It will also potentially block the site from Google's 
search engine and consider legal action for those sites which ignore or 
refuse the request. Action to this extent against secondary-use abusers 
is reportedly a first in relationship to http://www.google.co.jp/help/maps/streetview/
Google's Street View worldwide."


  About time IMO.  After all Google were the originators of this mess...

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
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