Japan asks Google Close Google Street View

A number of lawyers and professors in Japan ask the Internet giant Google to turn Google Street View, because the votes violated someone's privacy.

Google Street View is a feature of Google Maps introduced since 2007 and provides 360 degree views of streets and allow users to see the city of their choice and the surrounding metropolitan area on the primary level.

Currently, the Google Street view is able to display the 12 views of the city streets in Japan, 50 cities in the United States, and several other cities in Europe.

"We strongly believe that what Google clearly violate the basic rights that are owned by someone else," said constitutional law professor at Sophia University, Tokyo, Yasuhiko Tajima, such as the BBC This Friday (19/12/2008).

According to Yasuhiko Tajima, which is also the chairman of the Campaign Against Surveillance Society demanded Google to stop the service and remove all the images recorded from the Google Street View.

Protests related to the termination of the appreciation in the Japanese media after a number of Japanese citizens find the picture house in Street View. While in the United States, stronger protests after a woman is seen sunbathing in the house.

Meanwhile, Google's representative in Japan can not yet issued a statement regarding the demands termination of the service.