Tuesday, June 3, 2014

This Is How Germany Looks After the Google Street View Privacy Craze

"... It doesn't make any sense. When I can drive to, say, Kielganstraße 25 in Berlin and look at the building with my own eyes, does it make sense to have it blurred? Why? It's a public place, anyone can see it. It's just there. By doing this, the German government and the 240,000 idiots who wanted their houses blurred are just maiming a very useful service. In fact, they are actually stealing a technological advantage from their citizens in the name of a media-driven nationalistic crusade against Google. This is especially bad when other German companies offer exactly the same service, providing with photographs of all buildings in their own street navigation web sites..."

read full article at Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/5694361/this-is-how-germany-looks-after-the-google-street-view-privacy-craze



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