Swiss court: Google must blur street view images.

• Position: PRIVACY - Brief article

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In April, a Swiss court ordered Google to comply with privacy rules and make all images of individuals and vehicle plates unrecognizable on its Street View service, which allows users to see a ground-level panoramic view of locations on Google Maps based on still photographs taken by specially equipped vehicles.

Swiss Data Protection Commissioner Hanspeter Thuer had complained on several occasions that the service, introduced in Switzerland in 2009, broke privacy rules. In November 2009, Thuer took Google to court after the search giant refused to follow...