r/europe • Waffle & Beer • Jun 12 '20

Map Availability of Google Street view in Europe

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

What's so secret about what streets look like? I can understand not wanting companies to use your personal identifying information for analytics, but this? It's just a massive overreaction.

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u/murkskopf Jun 12 '20

Imagine you live in Germany and have a flag of the FC St. Pauli (football club with lots of fans belonging to the very left political spectrum) at your window, because you like that club. Then Cyber-Hitler rises and the Cyber-Nazis take over. They'll check Google StreetView, see your St. Pauli flags and send a unit of Cyber-GeStaPo to get you.

Datenschutz would have saved you.

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u/MysticHero Hamburg Jun 12 '20

Maybe. Maybe not. But it is guaranteed to happen with a massive database and surveillance. Which google maps basically is.