Google's cars mounted with 360-degree cameras will begin photographing Slovenian towns and cities next Tuesday. Bigger Slovenian cities, such as Ljubljana, Maribor and others will come first, while smaller cities and outskirts will be photographed later, Google said in a press release.

Google will guarantee a "high degree of privacy" and will publish the driving schedule at http://google.si/streetview as required by Slovenian data protection laws.

The development comes more than two years after Google's first attempt to get approval for launching the Street View service for Slovenia was turned down by the Information Commissioner because the company wanted to process the raw images of its recordings abroad.

Back then the commissioner ruled that Google could only take out of the country pictures on which personal information, including faces and car license plates, had already been blurred.

As part of the permission to launch its service, the Information Commissioner has demanded a broad set of safeguards, from clear public announcements to blurring of faces and license plates and other measures.

Information Commissioner Nataša Pirc Musar said in a press release today that a number of measures have been put in place to ensure an adequate balance between the rights of individuals and "legitimate interests of the private sector".

These include regular notifications of the location of Street View cars, blurring of faces and licence plates and a mechanism to report errors or request additional blurring.