
Also, it would be really enjoyable (and easier on my old lady eyes) to be able to make borders bold or different colors or even cut out a region to view it individually. You can’t adjust any type of visual settings so if you zoom too far in on, say, China, you get a million different location names in English and Chinese and you can’t even see the land under all the text. I am terrible at geography and thought this would help me with a class I’m taking but I was mistaken. It’s like they took what they were in the process of developing years ago and just threw it up without even looking at it for a quick review.

It takes a lot of disappointment for me to write reviews but this app is just so flat. Remy Melina is a staff writer for Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to LiveScience.Not Even Basic App Comforts (2020 iPad Pro) Google stated that this was done unintentionally and promised to delete the sensitive data as soon as possible. 22, 2010, Google admitted that their Street View data-collecting cars used to photograph streets had also been recording residents’ private information in the process, getting unencrypted Wi-Fi data including SSID information (Wi-Fi network name) and MAC addresses (a Wi-Fi router’s unique number). "Today's satellite-image technology means plete privacy does not exist," Google said in 2009 in response to the Borings' complaint.īut Google Street View has recently had other legal issues regarding privacy invasion. For example, a photo of the Boring's home can be found on the Allegheny County's Office of Property Assessments.

Google argues that the feature, which premiered in 2007, is not violating any privacy laws and that many of the images that people request to be taken down can be found online on other sites anyway. The legality of taking photos of private homes and posting them online –where anyone can see them and zoom in to view, for example, people's faces and cars' license plates - seems to vary case by case, as several previous lawsuits against Google Street View had been dismissed. Google took down the photos, with only an overhead satellite view currently shown of the town's streets.

In 2008, North Oaks, a small, private community near St Paul, MN, similarly requested that Google Street View strike their photos of the area from their records or be cited for trespassing.
