Internet giant Google will reshoot its street view images of Japan after users complained that it was providing users with a view over home fences.
The company has said it will re-shoot all of its images with a camera at a lower level, after it received complains from residents, product manager Keiichi Kawai said in a statement.
“We admit that there were concerns about the service. People said we might have neglected the privacy issue,” Kawai said. “We took their opinions seriously and made careful considerations.”
It is just one of the many recent incidents Google has encountered over privacy issues with its street view application. In Greece, Street View has been banned by a Governmental privacy watchdog.
The service was stopped from photographing an English village after its residents formed a blockade, preventing the Google car from moving entering.
Patrick Stafford is a freelance journalist and a former deputy editor of SmartCompany.
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