The EU wants the company in advance warning about where to photograph.
Google is in a period where the relationship to the European authorities have become more strained. 
In addition to allegations of abuse of market power, as well as the imprisonment of Google employees in Italy, it now seems that the EU Commission will impose stricter requirements for Google's procedures for photography and storage of original images used in the company's Street View service.
According to news agency Associated Press has the EU regulatory authorities sent Google a letter demanding that the company halve the time it takes care of the original images on Street View. Today the images stored in the twelve months before they are deleted. News Agency have gained access to the letter.
In the letter, dated the 11 February this year, writes Alex Turk, who is head of the EU's office for data protection, that Google should always give a notice, both for their own companies and in local or national press, before the company is shooting.
Turk writes further that Google should also be sure to avoid photographing images of sensitive species and images that contain details that are not usually observable by passersby.
He also believes that improvements in the Google technology to erase the details of faces and license plates, in addition to increased public awareness about the phenomenon, will lead to fewer complaints - in part because it takes less time before someone reacts to the photographs that have been published.
