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Surprised Germany is so resistant, although I suppose there was that WiFi SSID collection scandal which caused tension.
by javindo 13y ago
Surprised Germany is so resistant, although I suppose there was that WiFi SSID collection scandal which caused tension.
- sibbl 13y agoAs a German, I guess 90% of us would love to have a complete Street View coverage...
- kleiba 13y agoBut maybe other Germans would guess a different percentage?
- jessriedel 13y agoNot necessarily. With the German privacy protection laws, it sounds like just 1% of the population could easily cause enough grief to make mapping prohibitively expensive. According to this http://searchengineland.com/google-has-stopped-street-view-photography-germany-72368 http://searchengineland.com/google-has-stopped-street-view-p... 250k homes and businesses requested to have their property blurred out, which is indeed much less than 1% of the population.
- nadaviv 13y agoA tiny fraction of those who would oppose having their property shown on street view would be aware of it and take the time to do anything about it. So 250k people is quite a lot, and probably means a much larger percent of the population are bothered by it.
- omnibrain 13y agoNah, there was a huge media campaign against Street View. It was used by polititian to gain some "we care for you" profile and was mainly driven by the media companies that have a strong anti google stance in germany mainly because they want a part of Google's profits.
- jfoster 13y agoIt would be interesting to know how many of those 250k feel that Street View is a useful service, but just don't want their own home/business on it.
- kleiba 13y agoThat, and people can ask Google to take out any depictions of their property if they so desire. That is part of an agreement between Google and a Hamburg official responsible for privacy issues.
- marban 13y agoGoogle received 200k+ formal objections from house-owners to remove/pixelate their properties for privacy concerns. This caused a huge delay and as far as i know they're not planning to add any new cities anytime soon.
- lelf 13y agohttp://searchengineland.com/google-has-stopped-street-view-photography-germany-72368 http://searchengineland.com/google-has-stopped-street-view-p... (2011)
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