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Google Street View is a great service in conjunction with online maps and driving directions. It allows Google Map users explore places through 360 ° panoramic street-level imagery. Since 2007, Google has employed Street View cars, trikes, snowmobiles, and trolleys to take pictures in the streets, national parks, university campuses, sports stadiums, and museums around the world.

Quite simply, it was a mistake.

—Google’s Senior VP Alan Eustace (May 2010)

This is a bug, which we plan to fix shortly.

—Apple Press Info (April 2011)

We are sorry. We made a mistake.

—Path co-founder and CEO Dave Morin (February 2012)

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Lee, N. (2013). Privacy Breaches. In: Facebook Nation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5308-6_7

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