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Indeed, the incident exposes major security gaps in federal data protection.
On Thursday, the Bavarian regulator transferred the case to the German federal data protection commissioner, Peter Schaar.
Hanspeter Thür, the federal data protection commissioner, said Google's pictures, which were introduced last week, violated the country's privacy laws because they failed to obscure people's identities.
In Switzerland, Google has agreed to halt the display of further Street View images pending the outcome of a court case lodged by Swiss federal data protection officials.
The issue took on political overtones, with Germany's federal data protection commissioner, Peter Schaar, and its consumer protection minister, Ilse Aigner, criticizing Facebook for disregarding German privacy laws.
Hanspeter Th the Swiss federal data protection and information commissioner, who filed the complaint against Google, said in a statement that he was very happy with the ruling.
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Although existing recommendations (ITIL), standards (ISO 27001 5, CobiT, PCIDSS) and laws (e.g., Germanys Federal Data Protection Act) provide well-established security and privacy rulesets for data center providers, research has shown that additional regulations have to be defined for cloud environments [1, 9].
In a landmark case in September 2014, Germany ordered Google to stop violating its Federal Telemedia Act and Federal Data Protection Act.
The Hamburg Data Protection Authority warned Google yesterday that its user profiling activities are violating Germany's Telemedia Act & Federal Data Protection Act, owing to the lack of explicit user consent to how the data is processed.
The general privacy greyzones of the strict German Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (Federal Data Protection Act) and the fact that German citizens and the newspaper BILD are up in arms over the risk that their data will be used maliciously pressured the search giant into providing this special service.
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