The Czech Republic blocks Google Street View

After encountering strong opposition to Google Street View in Germany the Internet service provider is now having problems in the Czech Republic, too. The data protection authority in Prague has put a stop to the Czech Google Street View programme, which the German-language weekly Prager Zeitung applauds: "Google is gaining more and more power while the state has just looked on passively so far. Twenty years after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 the situation has been reversed. Back then it was the state and the state's intelligence service that dreamed of transparent citizens and persecuted dissidents, putting them in prison or even killing them. Google is not the state security, nor is it a totalitarian leader. But is it lord of colossal amounts of data. And that can be sold: to the state, to companies or to dubious persons. If the price is right morals lose their value."

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