News & Reviews:   Google Street View

A man in Argentina has been awarded compensation of USD 12500 (approximately RM58300) after an image of him naked outside his home appeared on Google Street View.

Google has revealed that it will be merging its Google Maps and Waze teams under one department to cut costs and consolidate operations. Specifically, Waze, the mapping service acquired by Google way back in 2013 will be joining Google’s Geo organisation which also houses Google Earth and Google Street View.

Google has recently announced that it will be removing the standalone Google Street View app from both Google Play Store and Apple App Store in the “coming weeks”. Moreover, support for the app will also be discontinued in March 2023.