The European Union’s Data Protection Working Party has given an express order to Google: Ditch Street View images taken in the UK after six months. Computerworld reports that the working party found Google’s current 12-month retention time for the images to be a “disproportionate” length of time. The party reported being “concerned that Street View continues to give rise to data-protection issues,” despite Google’s compliance with the initially laid-out requirements. It also ordered Google to give UK citizens more information and lead time surrounding when its Street View cars would be in particular areas to take photographs. EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said of the decision, “Google needs to raise much more awareness of Street View cars going though people’s streets as there is an option to opt out of appearing in them but no one knows about it.” As Nokia’s Henry Tirri recently told us, the EU is known for being more outspoken about privacy issues than other regions, partic...
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