Street View on the Move in the UK

Despite the potential to be referred to the Information Commissioner, Google apparently has started gathering the street level imagery needed to launch Street View in the United Kingdom.  According to the BBC, Privacy International, a British rights group, believes that Google’s technology breaks privacy laws in that country:

“In our view they need a person’s consent if they make use of a person’s face for commercial ends,” said Simon Davis of the group.

The group has written to Google asking for more information on their face blurring technology and has vowed to ask the Information Commissioner to suspend Google’s picture taking activities if they don’t receive the technical information they are looking for.

TechCrunch UK has posted a picture of the GooCar as evidence that Google has begun collecting imagery for Street View.