Street View: Thousands of Germans Ask Google to Blur Their Homes
September 20th, 2010Via: Spiegel:
Germans are amongst the most frequent users of Google’s Street View service, but that doesn’t mean they want pictures of their homes on the Internet. At least 100,000, and possibly a lot more, have registered online to have their homes made unrecognizable.
Germans may have a reputation for staring at people, but they apparently don’t like it when the favor is returned. SPIEGEL has learned that more than 100,000 people have already registered with Google to have their homes blurred out of the Google Street View service, which is slated for launch by the end of the year.
Google would not provide concrete information at the time SPIEGEL went to press late last week as to how many objections it had received in Germany, but sources with inside information close to the company said the figure was in the several hundreds of thousands.
Hmm. Think I’ll be registering for the same. It is very disturbing to me to see the Google Earth shots of my property on-line. VERY DISTURBING. Even the weird patterns of my non-mulching mower showed up. What the fluck? Interesting patterns, but nonetheless, if I want to soak up the sun in the flesh, do I want one of the Google drones taking pictures? NO WAY?