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Lithuania turns Google Street View on tax cheats

Lithuanian tax authorities said Thursday they would use the Baltic state’s recently launched Google Street View platform to track tax cheats by identifying the real value of property holdings. “It will help ascertain which property is ‘hiding’ under the entry recorded in the real-estate register and provide a preliminary assessment…

Google street view engineers say they were unaware of data breach

Google has published sworn declarations from nine engineers, as the company tries to answer claims it orchestrated a cover-up of its collection of personal data from millions of internet users. Nine engineers involved in the controversial Street View project said they were unaware it had been designed to capture private…