American reacts to 'Why There's Almost No Google Street View In Germany' 

Not all, there are still significant holes. But it is only a matter of time.

NEARLY all. Small streets are still uncovered, but that is not a specific point for Germany.

@@seifenraspel2382Yes. My parents' house will not be on Street View anytime soon, until Google starts using wheelbarrow cameras. There is no driveable road to the place.

Well, I didn't know that. I am so used to no street view I don't even try.

Last year we got street view? Who is "we" ? You and your family? Yeah could be. Germany got it back in 2008.

not even that recently, google street view is pretty common since over 10 years now, at least for major cities, only very few side streets where not covered but most were

@@williamrockwood5234 that is not correct. A year ago, barely anything was covered. I think Hamburg was covered, but that is about it. The footage was old and did not have a good camera quality. It is recently. Look at the current map, almost entire Germany is covered with street view

@@kingofmontechristo nope. in 2008/09 most of german major cities where covered pretty good. because of the resistence they did not update the fotos in a while until recently, that much is true, but it was still already covered and you could use the streetview in all major cities. I have used it a lot, everytime I had to go to some appointment I looked it up beforehand and while during the years some things sure has changed - the majority of things still remained the same.

​@@williamrockwood5234Wrong, before the update that happened last year there were some spots in the cities covered but it mostly looked like in this video

@@Zarok_ not true. major cities where 80-90% covered.

and I'm shooked to say that my apartment is now on Google. I mean ok, I'm from NRW and NRW is like 90% covered by now

really ? 😂

Why? I could understand if it was "Don't disturb, we are making babies", but violence? Never was a reason for a US company to do anything.

Maybe auto detected as a license plate or something?

Battle cat 😂😂😂

@@re-gaming3913 probably

What is your data there? Which color your house have? Wtf is wrong with you?

Street view data as such indeed is harmless, as long as persons and license plates are blurred out. There were two things in the past that contributed to the outcry and the reluctance to having your house on Street view. One was that they secretly collected the mentioned wifi data. I cannot even remember what the idea behind this was. I think one idea was to use visible Wi-Fi's for location services, but there sure was more to it. The second thing was a misconception people had, as they thought with those pictures people could look into their living rooms and would make it easy for burglars to plan ahead etc. To be honest, i never noticed any window on Street view through which a lot was visible. Which usually under normal lighting conditions is also technically very hard to achieve. But here came also into play a legal aspect of taking photos in Germany, where I have to refer to something that Andrew Bossom (aka rewboss on RU-vid) mentiontioned in the video about photography in Germany. There is a legal concept that allows you to take pictures in public places, including persons, as long as those persons are not the main focus of the picture composition, like a portrait. In Germany it is called "Panoramafreiheit". But this concept is limited to images taken just with a camera, so more or less at eye level. You may not use a pole (selfie stick) or a ladder to extend your view into private properties otherwise shielded by a wall, hedge or fence. Also one of the issues with drone images. And I think we can safely agree that for the purpose and to achieve the best viewing angle, the cameras on a Google car (or Bing maps, or whatever apple calls it) are not exactly at a pedestrians eye level.

@@alexanderkupke920 Well, I have once seen the camera looking into a room, that was through a open balcony door of a old house in France. To the panoramic view clause - well, there is probably nothing more panoramic than streetview images, because they are 360° photos. As I said, I dont see streetview as such a dangerous thing. There are other data collections that have much more potential to be harmful, especially if they get combined. Data about banking, shopping, medical data, legal issues ect. Yes, they are only available to "authorized parties" - but who is authorized you cannot decide about, at least you dont really control it. That is much more concerning than somebody seeing that you have your knickers on a washing line in the garden. But as so often people only worry out the superficial.

@@petebeatminister yeah as I said, the fear was mostly a big misconception. With possible planing for burglars being one of the given main reasons. But let's be honest, they never planned to completely map your apartment with all valuables, nor will there in the near future enough detail in those pictures, to help decide which window can be broken easiest or what lock is in your door and how easy it might be to pick. Looking at statistics, if there are good entry routes (and thus also ways to escape) a door or window on the back of the house is the most likely entry point. Not visible to passer bys and on Street view unless your house is situated right in between two streets, very rare. And lock picking or such finessed methods also are rare. Most common is the good old big screwdriver/ crowbar approach to a door or window. Takes only seconds and makes little noise.

If someone is allowed to undermine your rights and limit your freedom of speech/expression/opinion, it s only us (Brussels). Just have a look at the Digital Services Act.

It's not only them. I heard they also sued TikTok for not caring enough about children's privacy

@pkorobase up to 8%

fucking bullshit i live in dresden and can see my window on goolge street view.

@@OmegamonUI What, the street view car drove into the prison yard?

@@drau331 I have internet in prison yes you know it.

@@OmegamonUI As usual in german first class prisons. Right.

You should look up what information about people you can access in norway. Their privacy laws are even more insane than the us‘s

Wtf, is this the reality in the US? That sounds horrific as a German

@@Pseudonym-qh3oo it is if I understand correctly. As a Belgian I had the same reaction

@@Pseudonym-qh3oo Well its not so hard to get to get many/some of these informations through "Einwohnermeldeamt" and "Grundbuchamt". Of course you need a "reasonable interest", unlike the US, still with a lawyer/realtor/notary its usually no problem. But indeed there is no such thing as public crime records in Germany.

Meanwhile, Russian: A nu, cheeki-breeki i v damki!

America be like that meme where a mother asked her husband to saw a hole into the door of her daughter's room since "she brought a boy over" and "how dare she locking the door"

Probably everyone has.

Warum haben sie so eine komischen Namen? Damit fängt der Schutz der Privatssphäre schon an, sich nicht mit seinem richtigen namen zu "outen" Und das ist auch richtig so. Ich kenne es nicht anders.

agree. Haven´t even encountered one time I coudn´t use it

last year? what you describe is already like that since over 10 years. back then I looked up all the neighbourhoods that I was considering moving to on google street view in different major cities.

​@@williamrockwood5234 Yes major cities. But a bigger rollout of the streetview service all over the country and a renewal of the by then outdated data wasn't longer ago, than a year.

@@HerrFinster yea that is true

And Google just gives such data to everyone... Big security risk.

I bet someone read your comment and now thinks google is planning for ww3

They definitely have money for it @@sergeantsilly5239 😉🤣

Other reasons probably are just timing and the reputation of Google being more data hungry and Apple more privacy focussed (due to different business models). Maybe if Google had tried again two years after their second attempt, it would have ‘succeeded’, and Apple just started in a year when public opinion had shifted.

@@aphextwin5712 Not to mention that Apple is not a thing here (relativly speaking) Everyone knows google maps, many know street view, but I dare say less than 10% of not-Apple users (aka the majority) know that Apple has such a service.

​@@steemlenn8797 Ur right, it is the first time I heard if it.

How did you find that job?

You can't see if you are at home on street view. And burglars don't use street view to scout houses. They go down the f**** street in person because that is 10 times better. I know of exactly one case of a burglar that chose that house per street view - but he would have known the same stuff he looked for from maps.

there is no legitimate interest

​@@steemlenn8797 Right, who legalized what and why? There legalized interest still may be the opposite of MY interest.

nonsense. You must be confusing something. maybe you meant Street View (not maps) - until about 2022.

you are right. my fault @@tobyk.4911