Google has paid a €1 million ($1.4 million) fine to Italy’s privacy regulator over its Street View program, though not for the usual reasons. Unlike with other Street View-related fines in places like Germany and South Korea in which it turned out that the company’s street-snapping cars were also scooping up fragments of information from people’s Wi-Fi routers. This time, it was all about the vehicles’ appearance – people complained that the Street View cars were not sufficiently identifiable, so they didn’t know when the photography was in action.
