Google to introduce ‘Street View’ in Germany this year despite privacy concerns
By APTuesday, August 10, 2010
Google to introduce ‘Street View’ in Germany
BERLIN — Google Inc. says it will introduce its “Street View” mapping feature in Germany before the end of the year.
The company says in a statement released Tuesday that the feature will be available for the country’s 20 biggest cities and people can ask to have the photo of their house removed from the database starting next week — a move aimed at dispelling privacy fears.
It says “Street View” provides photographs of neighborhoods taken by Google cameras, but faces and licenses plates will be blurred.
The service has been controversial in Germany and other countries as privacy groups and authorities fear that people — filmed without their consent — could be seen doing things they didn’t want to be seen doing or in places where they didn’t want to be seen.
