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Authorities in Bangalore in India have stopped Google taking images of its roads for their Street View website. Police in the city have expressed security concerns over the 'highly sensitive' city, although the internet giant claims it is only 'driving on public roads and taking publicly available imagery'.

Sites like and have become a holiday maker's best friend in recent years, allowing users to plan routes all over the world. So, for example, if you're going on holiday in America and need to find out how close your hotel is to the airport before you book it, you can go to an online map and find out by typing in your destination.

Services like Google Street View also allow you not only to find out how to get from A to B but, in many cases, what the scenery would look like on the way. Since its launch in 2007, cameras fitted to cars, tricycles and even snowmobiles have been taking overlapping photos of roads and landmarks. These photos are then stitched together to give a street-eye view of cities across the world.

Concerns over privacy have been raised, and although license plates and faces are blurred out, individuals are entitled to request further blurring or removal of certain images, like their house or car, if they wish to preserve their anonymity.

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