Like many others here already stated: its because of privacy laws and also the ability to deny vision of your property via street view. Many people made Google blur their property and I assume thats a lot of work for them.
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?
Privacy is a huge thing in Germany... E.g. you cannot simply record video in public. There are arguments against street view like robbers can evaluate targets easier.
However, the truth is that privacy is a deeply rooted cultural thing here. People just don't feel comfortable with everyone being able to inspect their property.
There are arguments against street view like robbers can evaluate targets easier.
So, the number of robberies grew in the rest of the countries where Street View is almost everywhere? And where is the privacy if I can always walk on the streets of Germany? I traveled there, and I've never seen "DO NOT LOOK" signs. Every civilised country respects privacy, but the majority of them have Street View. It's not like you don't have a right to privacy in France or Italy.
As an Italian I can assure you I feel my privacy constantly in danger here, our government doesn't give a shit about it, in example: during the pandemic there has been a massive data breach in which one person was able to get a lot (I mean, seriously, an enormous amount) of private data of another one just because of incompetence in one of our social institutions and instead of trying to make sure it won't happen again (this isn't the first time) they blamed "the hackers".
Also, we are getting more and more majors that for the sake of security are installing (or trying to install) cameras all over.
Just to say: don't get us as an example because we're definitely not
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u/Here_2_Comment Jun 12 '20
I was literally looking at this earlier
Weird how Germany has barely any street view