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Google 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 p
by bla2 10y ago
Google 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.