{"id":1087,"date":"2010-11-21T05:09:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T13:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2010-12-14T05:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:05:06","slug":"germany-and-google-street-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/germany-and-google-street-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany and Google Street View"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I have been enjoying the blurred images of German buildings whose owners have chosen to opt-out of Google Street View. Infamous moments in the country’s history have led Germans to take privacy very seriously; especially when it comes to information about their residences. Unlike the United States, where data privacy is an opt-out option, Germany law states that, “citizens must opt-in to have their data collected in any way.” (1<\/a>). In fact, there is a document detailing the rights of the “data subject” in the German Federal Data Protection Act<\/a> which serves “to protect the individual against his right to privacy being impaired through the handling of his personal data.”<\/p>\n

An even more powerful gesture are the very public images that have resulted from this protection. While they serve a specific function\u2014to obscure identifying aspects of buildings, faces, etc.\u2014they also communicate very effectively the message that individuals should<\/em> have the right to decide how their data is used. This gets to the heart of the Give Me My Data<\/a> app\u2014to prompt this sort of discussion. It is then ironic that Google, a company whose revenue is based almost completely on advertising opportunities made possible by aggregating and re-representing data, has inadvertently brought us this message.<\/p>\n

I was excited to find my own apartment building in Berlin has been removed.<\/p>\n

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Another building down the street<\/p>\n

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Helge Denker<\/a>, a reporter with the German daily, Das Bild, has found a clever way to opt-out. <\/p>\n

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This week I have been enjoying the blurred images of German buildings whose owners have chosen to opt-out of Google Street View. Infamous moments in the country’s history have led Germans to take privacy very seriously; especially when it comes to information about their residences. Unlike the United States, where data privacy is an opt-out […]<\/p>\n

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