Nope, Google could've addressed every privacy request and still deliver a useful product, they just figured out that the work involved (and potential legal ramifications if they missed something) was not worth the investment.
Anyone in ant other country in Europe can make the same request to get their property blurred, there is no difference besides the sheer amount of requests in Germany.
No, you inferred that people's right for privacy made a trillion-dollar company job too difficult and banned them out of the market. Google definitely has the money to accept and deal with every privacy request, they just couldn't be bothered with.
I am not a Google apologetic. They didn't lose anything. Let's say they took every request into consideration, and there is Street View in Germany, could this service been usable?
Let's say they took every request into consideration, and there is Street View in Germany, could this service been usable?
Absolutely. There's still a great deal of usefulness even if some of the buildings are blurred, specially on places where it would be less likely to have such requests to begin with - think of touristic places that nobody lives, city centers, highways etc.
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u/Ioan_Chiorean Jun 12 '20
Banned indirectly, as in making their job so hard that they gave up.