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Google’s Street View troubles continue

June 18, 2010

The fallout from Google’s data-collection practices continues. French authorities investigated the data, and U.S. attorneys general are considering action.

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WMATA will share data with developers

June 9, 2010

Greater Greater Washington reports that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC) plans to make its data available to third-party developers, including Google.

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Google will share data with European governments

June 6, 2010

Google will comply with requests from European regulators to turn over the personal data that its Street View vehicles collected inadvertently.

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Transit maps in the palm of your hand

June 4, 2010

The New York Times offers a roundup of mobile transit apps for cities around the world.

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Helping rural residents use Google Transit

May 21, 2010

In Half-Mile Circles, guest blogger Sue Crowe writes about a project that tested the use of Google Maps in a nine-county rural region in northern California. Plumas, Shasta (which led the project), Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity counties participated in the first phase of the study;  Google Maps was launched successfully for all except Plumas County.  [...]

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Google’s European troubles continue

May 19, 2010

A German regulator has asked Google to turn over one of the hard drives used to store personal data mistakenly collected in that country by its Street View camera cars.

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Google mapping cars collected personal data by mistake

May 18, 2010

Google’s mapping cars, which photographed locations for the Street View application, “inadvertently” collected something more — personal information that people sent over unencrypted wireless networks. Since 2006, cars collected fragments of data in passing, as Google documented the location of wireless networks in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Information transmitted over password-protected WiFi networks [...]

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New York and Philadelphia test real-time information

April 19, 2010

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority are testing applications to provide customers with real-time information.

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The route to smart transit

April 15, 2010

Writing for IBM’s developerWorks series, Scott Davis presents an overview of online transit resources from Google Maps to City-Go-Round and mobile applications like One Bus Away.

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Arlington Transit releases data to developers and Google

April 14, 2010

Greater Greater Washington reports that Arlington Transit (VA) has released its bus route and schedule information to developers and has signed a partnership agreement with Google.

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