UK reopens investigation into Google Street View

Published June 12, 2012 6:07pm ET



LONDON (AP) — Britain’s data regulator has reopened its investigation into Google’s Street View, saying that an inquiry by authorities in the United States raised new doubts about the disputed program.

Steve Eckersley, enforcement chief of the British Information Commissioner’s Office, said Google Inc. had questions to answer about Street View, an attention-grabbing project which sent camera-toting vehicles across the globe to create three-dimensional maps of the world’s highways and byways.

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