The Swiss like their privacy; after all, just think of the tight-lipped security on those Swiss bank accounts. But in what must be a record, the head of the country’s federal data protection is demanding Google shut down Street View Switzerland, less than a week since it went live.
Hans-Peter Thür, head of data protection, claimed that "many faces and car registration plates were clearly visible or were insufficiently obscured," and last Friday told Google they had to yank the offending images until the face-blurring software was working properly.
Matthias Meyer from Google Switzerland admitted that the software had some problems:
