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Bremen: Commissioner informs that Apple records streets for Apple Maps, provides information on how to object
The Bremen data protection authority ('the Bremen Commissioner') informed, on 18 August 2020, that Apple Inc. is using a fleet of vehicles marked as Apple Maps in Bremen between 15 June 2020 and 10 September 2020. In particular, the Bremen Commissioner held that in addition to other data, the vehicles record images of the environment they pass by. Moreover, the Bremen Commissioner stated that according to Apple, the purpose of the recordings is to improve the service Apple Maps and highlighted that it is unclear whether the images produced could also be used for publication in the so-called Look Around Feature in the future. Furthermore, the Bremen Commissioner held that if data subjects think they have been filmed by one of the fleet vehicles and do not want images of a building or vehicle they used to be processed, they can object to the data processing by Apple.
The Bremen Commissioner provided a form to object and referred to the updated information on Apple camera tracking shots ('the Information') by the Data Protection Authority of Bavaria for the Private Sector ('BayLDA'), which includes further information on tracking shots in other German citites.
You can read the press release here and the Information here, both only available in German.
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