The home ministry has conveyed to Google that its plans to cover India through Google Street View is rejected due to security reasonsThe Indian government rejected Google’s plans to cover India through the Google Street View, according to a report on Thursday. The Street View team has collected up-to-date Street View imagery of Rio’s streets and neighbourhoods and indoor imagery of more than 200 hotels, restaurants and bars across the city. If you submit a request to have your personal home blurred from Google Street View imagery, all historical and future images of your home will also be blurred.”Additionally, Street View images are not real time. In May 2011, Google had extended its Street View project to India, by starting to collect 360-degree street level imagery in Bengaluru. Street View technology thus made possible new panoramic views of 31 Indian archaeological sites and monuments on Google Maps.

Source: Mint June 10, 2016 03:33 UTC