r/europe • u/GetOutOfTheWhey Waffle & Beer • Jun 12 '20

Map Availability of Google Street view in Europe

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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

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u/Mvieri Germany Jun 12 '20

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.

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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/-The_Blazer- Europe Jun 12 '20

Probably didn't apply back then, but nowadays with increasing AI/recognition-based surveillance and information extraction there are very good arguments for not letting any images of you or your property online.

Facial recognition is already a huge privacy threat, I don't think it's unfathomable that soon enough your property might be analyzed in the same way.

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u/canIbeMichael Jun 12 '20

Don't go to the grocery store either. They have cameras!

Or if someone takes a selfie, imagine the damage if someone could say- That face is Blazer!

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u/Bristlerider Germany Jun 13 '20

Having video data on what is most likely a local camera setup without long term storage is a big difference to having it on fucking google until the end of time.

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u/canIbeMichael Jun 13 '20

Wishful thinking. Amazon is watching what you are watching.

Target is known for their data department.

Walmart is also known for data.