Google faces a fresh privacy blunder after it admitted it had not deleted all the private data, including emails and passwords, it secretly collected.

Google has been ordered to pay $25 000 for collecting personal information without permission and not cooperating with an investigation into it.

Google Street View is taking its users into shops, gyms and restaurants in an effort to provide them with a better understand of what’s on offer.

Google has expanded its South African street view image bank, allowing users to explore even more of the country from the comfort of their PCs.

A big bone of contention in many countries, Google’s Street View mapping service on Thursday goes live in Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica.

Internet giant Google will from next week allow Germans to opt-out of its disputed Street View navigation service.