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Hasta la vista, Street View
19 August 2010
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Dziennik Gazeta Prawna 
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, 19 August 2010
“Europe fears Google,“ headlines Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. The American search engine's controversial Street View application, which allows users to view high-resolution pictures of residential streets and homes, is now being challenged in the Spanish as well as the German courts. A complaint has just been filed with a Madrid court, accusing Google of illegal data collection and privacy infringement. A number of similar suits were filed last week by residents of Hamburg, Germany.
As Greece pimps its ancient monuments to bring in the tourists, lovers of cultural heritage are up in arms. But the country is only doing openly what the whole of Europe is: looting historic sites to drum up more ready cash. 
Asserting national values is central to the political project of the Hungarian PM. Since the start of the year, fifteen paintings, specially commissioned for an exhibition in the Castle of Buda, have been putting this ambition on show. 
The game has gone on for nearly two years: Athens pretends to comply with the demands of its creditors and partners, and they pretend to believe in Greece’s commitments. As the spectre of default comes nearer, however, the Greek bluff cannot go on much longer, writes an El Mundo editorialist.