Google has decided to stop being evil.
Google has gotten a lot of flack from privacy advocates for photographing faces and license plate numbers and displaying them on the Street View in Google Maps. Originally, the company said only people who identified themselves could ask the company to remove their image.
But Google has quietly changed that policy, partly in response to criticism, and now anyone can alert the company and have an image of a license plate or a recognizable face removed, not just the owner of the face or car, says Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google.
“It’s a good policy for users and also clarifies the intent of the product,” she said in an interview following her keynote at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday.
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