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There was no law passed in this setting, but a temporary ban specifically targeted at the Street view cars <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gqQOUMhV0... in the wake of the discovery that they were collecting private wireless data, in order to investigate.

I do not live in Austria, but, in my opinion, this does not seem an entirely unreasonable reaction to that discovery. (Incidentally, I think I would be in favor of laws controlling the massive untargeted acquisition of information in public space, for privacy reasons... and I would not mind at all if this meant there was no Street view coverage in my country; quite the contrary.)



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