Privacy concerns for Google's Street View may now extend to penguins, following the service's extension to a 7th continent, Antarctica. The Antarctica imagery is so far limited, showing panoramas of the coast and penguins of Half Moon Island. Google says its service now covers 25 nations on all the world's continents. Street View has expanded massively since its launch in 2007 but has encountered a number of protests over its data collection. The vice-president of Engineering, Google Earth and Maps, announced the extension to Antarctica. and also to Brazil and Ireland. on Google Blog. Google Street View's images are normally taken from a fleet of adapted cars but the Antarctica shots are a combination of Google and user photographs. The Half Moon Island shots are a view of penguins and one of the landscape. Google Street View was launched in May 2007, covering San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, New York and Miami, allowing users to navigate virtual streets from photographs gathered from directional cameras on special vehicles. The service has been hugely successful but has brought problems of privacy in some countries.
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