Google has been recently targeted once again for security violations. A group of Japanese lawyers and professors have warned Google to stop providing their street view service of various Japanese cities. They have also asked Google to delete the saved images with Google.

According to Yasuhiko Tajima, a professor from the Sophia University of Tokyo has told that they consider this as a deep violation of the basic human rights of Japanese. They consider it highly important to warn the society against the violation of privacy rights by an IT giant in an open manner. The privacy rights are the most important rights of citizens and the service of Google should not be a threat to these rights.

A campaign was conducted by the Japanese civilian group headed by Tajima. This wanted Google to stop the services of Street View from Japan. There have been recent cases filed against Google Earth and Wikimapia. These cases warn that through these websites, viewers are provided very detail and minute photographs and navigational coordinates of places.

This warning and ban of Google Earth and Street View might end up their services in various countries following this. Because of security constraints and issues, these could be banned in various countries.

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