The fact is: Google's camera-equipped Street View cars have already been traversing Germany for the past two years.

事实是：Google的街景拍摄车已经在过去的两年里遍历了德国。

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Google announced that it stopped sending out its Street View cars to take photos in Germany, though it will still show online photos already taken of 20 German cities.

谷歌(Google)宣布已停止在德国进行街景图拍摄，不过它仍将会在网站上展示已经拍摄的20个德国城市的街景图。

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Google, which made a profit of ?4.5billion last year, said its Street View cars no longer collected any type of wireless information, and promised to improve its privacy policies.

据悉，谷歌公司在09年的收益是45亿英镑，该公司负责人说“街景车”将不再收集无线资讯数据，并保证改善自身保护隐私方面的政策。

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The data was harvested from home wireless networks as Street View cars photographed neighbourhoods between 2008 and 2010.

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In April, Google claimed that its Google Street View cars did not collect or store information sent over Wi-Fi networks.

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Street View cars, used to collect data for location-based products like Google Maps, mistakenly collected samples of payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.

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