Google Inc. faced fresh scrutiny of its privacy practices Tuesday, with police in South Korea raiding the Internet giant's offices there and German officials criticizing the company's plan to roll out its mapping service in 20 cities.
谷歌公司(Google Inc.)涉及隐私的做法再次受到质疑。周二，其韩国办公楼遭到警方突击检查，在德国20个城市推出地图服务的计划也受到了官方的批评。
The National Police Agency in South Korea said it is investigating whether the Mountain View, Calif., company collected and stored private information illegally while it prepared for the launch of its Street View mapping service, which provides panoramic views of streets for Internet users.
韩国国家警察厅说，它正在调查谷歌公司在准备推出"街景"(Street View)地图服务的过程中，有没有非法收集和储存私人信息。谷歌公司总部位于美国加利福尼亚山景城，网民可以通过"街景"服务看到城市街道的全景影像。
Regulators in several countries, including Germany, Italy, Australia and the U.S., are investigating whether privacy laws were broken when Google's Street View vehicles collected personal data of unsuspecting Internet users from Wi-Fi wireless networks. Google has said the data collection was inadvertent.
包括德国、意大利、澳大利亚和美国在内，多个国家的监管机构正在调查，以确定谷歌的街景车辆在网民无防备的情况下，收集他们通过Wi-Fi无线网络发出的个人数据时，有没有违反隐私方面的法律。谷歌曾说，数据的收集是随意的。
'We began the probe after having confirmed that the company seized and kept open data as well as unauthorized private communication data collected by its special data-collecting vehicles,' the South Korean police agency said in a statement.
韩国国家警察厅发表声明说，在证实该公司通过其专门的数据收集车辆获取并保留公开数据和未经授权的私人通信数据之后，我们启动了调查。
Open data refers to information such as businesses' street addresses that can be kept and stored legally under Korean law.
公开数据指的是公司地址等信息，根据韩国法律可以合法地保留和存储。
'We can confirm that the police have visited Google Korea in conjunction with their investigation around data collection by Street View cars. We will cooperate with the investigation and answer any questions they have,' said Lois Kim, a Google spokeswoman.
谷歌公司女发言人Lois Kim说，我们可以证实，警方曾到访谷歌韩国公司，同时对街景车辆的数据收集展开调查。我们将配合调查，并回答他们提出的任何问题。
The raid doesn't necessarily mean the Internet-search giant will face charges. Such raids are common in South Korea as part of initialinvestigations that often fail to go much further.
突击检查不一定意味着谷歌将会遭到起诉。这种检查在韩国很常见，以此启动的调查常常都不会进一步深入多远。
Still, the raid will likely keep a spotlight on Street View.
但这次检查可能会让人们对谷歌街景的关注持续不减。
A number of U.S. states have joined in on an investigation of whether privacy laws were broken when Google's Street View vehicles collected personal data of unsuspecting Internet users.
美国有几个州已经展开联合调查，以确定谷歌街景车辆在网民无防备的情况下收集他们私人数据的时候，其行为是否违反了隐私法律。
Authorities in the Italy, Spain, Germany and Australia are investigating the service.
意大利、西班牙、德国和澳大利亚的有关部门也在调查这项服务。
Meanwhile, Google said Tuesday it plans to introduce Street View for 20 of Germany's largest cities, including Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt, by the end of the year. The announcement drew criticism from German officials, who were among the first to raise privacy concerns about the service.
与此同时，谷歌在周二说，它计划于年内在德国20个大城市推出街景服务，其中包括柏林、慕尼黑和法兰克福。这一消息引起德国官员的批评。德国是最早对谷歌街景提出隐私方面担忧的国家之一。
The company is seeking to address Germans' worries by allowing people to request that photos of their residences not be included on Street View. Google said that service would be offered in addition to standard procedures obscuring faces and vehicle-license plates in pictures incorporated into the program.
谷歌希望通过允许人们要求它不把自己居所的影像放入街景当中，来打消德国方面的担忧。谷歌说，在标准程序之外，谷歌还会推出一项服务，对"街景"中照片上的人脸和车牌号进行模糊处理。
Ilse Aigner, Germany's consumer-protection minister, said Tuesday that she is concerned Google won't give people enough time to request that street-level pictures of their homes be removed before Street View goes online.
德国消费者保护部部长艾格纳(Ilse Aigner)周二说，她担心，当人们还没有来得及要求谷歌删除自己居所的照片时，街景就已经上线了。
'It's critical for me that as promised all the dissents that are filed are acted upon,' Ms. Aigner said in a statement. Consumer-protection groups are broadly skeptical of Google's plans as well.
艾格纳发表声明说，要按照承诺受理所有提交的不同意见，这对我来说至关重要。消费者保护团体也对谷歌的计划普遍感到怀疑。
In the 20 cities, German users have until mid-September to request that the images of their homes be blurred, and therefore made unrecognizable, said Lena Wagner, a Google spokeswoman.
谷歌女发言人瓦格纳(Lena Wagner)说，在德国的这20个城市，用户需要在9月中旬之前要求谷歌对自己居所的影像进行模糊处理，使之无法辨认。
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