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I didn't think very much of it at the time these requests were made, but now that I have seen the effect, pixelating these houses seems like an act of vandalism
by phreeza 16y ago
I didn't think very much of it at the time these requests were made, but now that I have seen the effect, pixelating these houses seems like an act of vandalism in itself to me.
Imagine 50 or so years from now, these recordings will be a wonderful document of our times, but in Germany they are now heavily scarred.
- ugh 16y agoBut don’t you know that creating historical documents is not the task of filthy profit-oriented corporations but of the pure German government?
- Tichy 16y agoTouche - I guess the EU will soon invest a Trillion dollars into their own streetview project, which will unfortunately never go anywhere (what has happened to the EU financed Google killer?).
- Luc 16y agoHow so? The source material is no doubt still available in unpixelated form.
- macco 16y agoAccording to google, it is not.
- _stephan 16y agoNo, the German data protection officials insisted on Google blurring the original source material and not preserving any unblurred copies. IMHO, that might be appropriate in certain exceptional circumstances, e.g. when inadvertently something very private or embarrassing has been captured, but it is a bit over the top as a general policy.