Bowing to privacy concerns in Japan, Google has announced it’ll reshoot all of Japan for its online Street View map option.

The trouble with the original photos was that the camera taking pictures was mounted high enough to see over fences and into yards. Google has already shot 12 major Japanese cities, including Tokyo, but will be scrapping everything and starting over after modifications have been made to the camera mounts to lower their field of vision. The invasion of privacy claim has Google lowering the cameras on its vehicles by 40 centimetres. Maybe it’s time to ditch the cars and take to a tricycle powered privacy buster instead?

Greece has already banned Google Street View. Greece’s Data Protection Authority (DPA) banned Google from gathering any more images until the company provides additional privacy safeguards.

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