Google Street View to add 100 Indian monuments The company's mapping team has become increasing adventurous in recent years, with Google Trekker - a backpack with a camera attached - capturing images of the Grand Canyon, Mount Fuji, the Galapagos Islands and the streets of Venice. India's union culture minister Chandresh Kumari Katoch is quoted by The Hindu as saying: "We have always embraced technology. The new panoramic imagery of monuments will allow the ASI to boldly take forward its mission of embracing partnerships for the future in order to preserve and propagate the rich heritage of India's past. Google Street View, which produces panoramic views of roads across the world thanks to footage captured by a camera mounted on a car, has attracted controversy in the past. Privacy concerns were raised when images of streets in the UK showed people vomiting, being arrested and leaving sex shops. Last month Home Office minister Jeremy Browne called the service "unnerving" after he appeared on the site carrying his red ministerial box near Paddington station. In August 2010 South Korean police raided Google's Seoul office over concerns about the legality of information collected by the company's cars. Last month a US judge ruled that Google broke the law when it harvested unsecured WiFi data while collecting images for Street View.