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Interesting that some roads in Germany are covered, at least for now.
by opk 10y ago
Interesting that some roads in Germany are covered, at least for now.
- detaro 10y agoThe few I randomly clicked on seemed to be either tests without outside view or with mostly-blurred faces and license plates (some unblurred, I suspect where the face-detection failed), so there are efforts to conform with privacy demands here.
- bla2 10y agoGoogle Street view also blurs faces and license plates. What killed it in Germany was that some people wanted to be able to have their houses blurred out, and processing these requests took lots of manual work.
- lfam 10y agoYou can have your house blurred out in the USA, too.
- kuschku 10y agoThe big issue was that Google had the cameras above eye height – German law only allows panoramic images at eye level.
- majewsky 10y agoI vaguely remember websites dedicated to providing HD images of all the buildings that are blurred in Google Streetview, as another instance of the Streisand Effect.
- rmc 10y agoDidn't the courts require that people be allowed to blur their house fronts? Which resulted in large amounts of Google Street View being blurred.
- notatoad 10y agoIt will be interesting to see if that remains. I suspect that a lot of the privacy objections around Google Street View are objections to google, not objections to street view.
- legulere 10y agoWhy? Google Streetview stopped because public backlash, not because there's any law against it (it's actually even explicitly allowed through Panoramafreiheit)
- kuschku 10y agoActually, Panoramafreiheit does NOT apply to Streetview, because the cameras were not at eye level, and could look into gardens, over fences and hedges. This was tried in court, and Google failed. Panoramafreiheit only applies at eye level (I’ve talked with a few people studying law about this due to the current drone debate)