Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has announced that the Czech Republic's data protection authority has refused to allow further picture collection for Google's Street View map service.
The data office, which already rejected a similar request from Google in December 2009, said it would comment on the matter at a press conference on September 22.
The office launched administrative proceedings against Google in April as the latter's specially equipped vehicles taking pictures of Prague streets also collected personal information sent via unsecured wireless networks.
In neighbouring Germany, protests forced Google to launch a campaign giving citizens concerned about safety or privacy eight weeks to tell the company to pixel out pictures of their homes or businesses before they are published.
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