Belgian police union wants Street View offline

The Belgian police union Sypol is not happy with Google Street View. According to the police union is the service ‘fantastic’ for thieves, and this must therefore be down. Street View came Wednesday online in Belgium lwa.

Thieves would Street View, for example, can use it to ” all aspects of a house and the security systems to see, thinks police union Sypol. Reports that the Belgian public broadcaster. Also the environment of a potential target can then be explored, thinks the union.

The union therefore wants that the service is offline, is disconnected, and calls the current situation ‘impossible to police’. The controversy comes shortly after the introduction of Street View in Belgium, last Wednesday. The first Street View cars drove in march 2009 around in Belgium; it is unclear why the police union now takes action.

Earlier this month, said Google in Belgium for the interception of data transmitted over unprotected wi-fi networks were sent. The data were captured by the Street View cars, which not only take photos of the area, but also wi-fi networks for location positioning.