10/21/2010
Germans Unfazed by Google Street View
Fewer than 3 percent of residents in 20 German cities have petitioned Google to blur out their homes in its Street View service.
In an official blog post dated Wednesday, a Google executive wrote that the company has so far received 244,237 requests from German residents to blur out their homes. That figure corresponds to 2.89 percent |
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At www.spiegel.de
Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.