Google to reshoot Japan after privacy complaints

TOKYO: Internet search engine Google said it would reshoot all Japanese pictures for its online photo map service, Street View, using lower camera angles after complaints about invasion of privacy.

Google's Street View, which offers 360-degree views of streets around the world using photos taken by cruising Google vehicles, has already run into privacy complaints in other countries and activists have tried to halt the service in Japan.

Google said in a statement yesterday it would lower the cameras on its cars by 40 cm after complaints they were capturing images over fences in private homes.