(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, JUNE 5 - Google has launched its Street
View map service in Greece after winning approval from the
privacy authority that blocked the ground-level map application
five years ago, as daily Kathimerini online reports.
Company officials said the service went live Thursday after
"extensive and detailed" negotiations with the country's Data
Protection Authority, which last year lifted objections made to
the project in 2009. Culture Minister Panos Panagiotopoulos
attended a launch event in central Athens and said the map
service would help the crisis-hit country's vital tourism
industry, describing Greece as an "endless archaeological park."
Google was allowed to gather photos for Street View while
waiting for formal approval to start the service, and had been
permitted to display cultural sites on a related service.
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