German Street View goes live with enhanced privacy

The first images via Google’s Street View service in Germany are live after months of wrangling over privacy.The first town to be mapped on the service is Oberstaufen, in Bavaria.Germany is the first country to have negotiated with Google to allow citizens to opt out before the service goes live.Almost 250,000 Germans have requested that their properties be pixellated in the final imagery.
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