For some time, Google has had problems with the European Union's privacy regulators in connection with the company's "street view" service. For those of you unfamiliar with it, "street view" is Google's service that provides 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic views from a row of positions along the street (one every approximately 10 or 20 metres) for many streets in the world, from a height of about 2.5 metres.