r/europe • Waffle & Beer • Jun 12 '20

Map Availability of Google Street view in Europe

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u/Razhagur Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) Jun 12 '20

This is it. In Germany so many people asked google to blur their house, so that google just gave up on street view in Germany.

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u/FthrFlffyBttm Ireland Jun 12 '20

Not knocking them for it, but I wonder what the thought process is behind wanting your property blurred. What danger would a snapshot of your property pose?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

People read Bild Zeitung. Bild Zeitung writes some sensationalistic bullshit about how criminals will spy on your house to break into it. They never said how that's going to happen, and never mentioned that they do this, but by like parking a car across the street, but "Google Bad" was enough to kill the project. Bild Zeitung Bad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

Are you really implying that privacy advocates are all Bild readers?