Google Fights Back Against Swiss Ruling On Street View
May 16, 2011 by Kevin Michael Gray
ZURICH—Google Inc. on Wednesday threatened to pull its popular Street View application from Switzerland if the country's highest court doesn't overturn a ruling that would force the company to blur out every face that appears on the service.
The Internet search giant said it would appeal the decision of a lower court, which in March backed Switzerland's privacy watchdog in finding that Street View infringes on privacy because the application isn't able to render 100% of individuals' faces and vehicle-license plates unidentifiable.
"We simply cannot comply with the current terms of the court. If the ruling is not amended, we will not have any choice but to pull Google Street View services from Switzerland," Google legal counsel Peter Fleischer said during a call with reporters...
