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Could you link to the companies doing that? I never heard of them, even though I'm from Germany.

• ugh 16y ago
  I only know http://sightwalk.de/ http://sightwalk.de/
• nodata 16y ago
  ^^^ here is your reason. Nobody knew about the other companies. Everyone knows about Google doing it.
• smcl 16y ago
  Das Telefonbuch have a system where you can look up someone's name in a town, and list their address and provide links to view satellite images of the street: http://www.dastelefonbuch.de/ http://www.dastelefonbuch.de/ If Germans were really more conscious of privacy then I suspect they'd be worried about this, but as previous posters have said it's more down to misinformation and exaggeration.
  • avar 16y ago
    Das Telefonbuch has aerial images, that's very different from street-level images on Google Street View.
    • evgen 16y ago
      Correct. Ariel images show you things that are not visible to a driver or pedestrian. Much bigger privacy risk if you actually thought about it for a second...
• Kliment 16y ago
  As mentioned below, Sightwalk is one, I forget the other one. I hadn't heard of the other one before the Street View mess either, so I'm not too surprised. But as far as I'm aware, Sightwalk made it very public that they were doing this, and did not get much criticism at the time. Their optout method is nearly identical to the one Google is currently offering.