Swiss want new rules to regulate firms like Google (AFP)

GENEVA (AFP) – Switzerland's accumulation endorsement honcho said Sun that the land needs newborn rules to set cyberspace services much as Google which could bear a difficulty to individuals' privacy.

"I conceive that cyberspace services and applications that could threaten individualized rights staleness be person to a licensing procedure," said Hanspeter Thuer, land accumulation endorsement commissioner, in an discourse with production Sonntag.

Asked if this meant that a variety of Google-law was required, Thuer said: "Yes. A modify in governing is necessary not meet for Google, but for every IT applications. Everyone that offers applications on the mart that could alteration individualized rights staleness be certified."

Thuer had said terminal assemblage that he was attractive Google to suite in a disagreement over concealment concerns on the US cyberspace giant's "Street View" represent map.

It emerged this period that Google had composed individualized aggregation from land clannish wireless cyberspace networks (WLAN) patch it was assemblying pictures for the "Street View" map.

Google has said that this was finished "in error" and that it would defeat the accumulation as presently as possible.

Thuer said a assemble of experts should be ingrained to encounter discover what had happened in this case, and what category of accumulation had been captured.

To Google's verify that it was a blunder, Thuer said it is "difficult to envisage that a international assemble with so some experts had composed accumulation over eld and that this was meet an error."

"But I module also not eliminate this. I am today expecting a flooded revealing on what happened exactly. The quality of this consort today depends on this disclosure," he said.

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