How Adding Images to Google Street View Could Violate Privacy

Privacy is overrated anyway, right?

“All you need is a smartphoneno fancy equipment required.”

Wait, There Are PlacesNotOn Google Maps?

Someone asking directions from a local in Japan while holding a small tablet.

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But sometimes the locals just dont want it.

To this day, there is no Street View in the island.

Germany has also objected to ubiquitous Street View, although in a typically pragmatic way.

Someone taking pictures of houses in a neighborhood.

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While most of the country is covered, many properties are blurred.

This gives people the utility of Street View, while affording privacy to those who want it.

Its kind of like delisting your number from the phone book.

Businesses stand to benefit from these new Street View tools.

And that could be a big deal.