This beautiful advertising campaign promoted by Google, I do not want to deprive you, there is the Google Maps extension of Google Street View. Here, the control and Navigatioselemente into "real life be transferred." Thus, the typical arrows and the logo sprayed on the road, or a bus stop in a "screen" transformed, class idea.

Google Street View advertising on the street

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Everyone knows the service, although it is still inspect roads so far to no German. This is partly so because the service encounters lately on strong headwind. And rightly in some cases also (via). Hamburg, for example, Google has issued a recording ban, if you do not want to comply with certain rules datenrechtliche. The data protection officials of the countries have taken to the Barrikanden and finally they can get it that the search giant offers specifically tailored to Germany Privacy Tools. If you have complaints, you can apply directly to streetview-deutschland@google.com or ask Google about an online form for deletion of images.

Skepticism, however, remains: Because supposedly raw data remain unprocessed in the United States, first and second. Both left for data protection is a horror. For, unlike the news of last week, writes online world now that the Supervisor of the City of Caspar the Google group has a "closure order" for the data of the offer "Google Street View issue" would, if the data protection legislation not angwenden to the raw data of the images should be.

The camera cars from Google were already on the road in many places, shooting in the city of Stuttgart, for example, are planned for this month (via stuttgart.de), here in Friedrichshafen I have seen several weeks ago already have a Google camera car (weather permitting of course) . The car with the giant black-Cam - by the way, she loves me more like a ball grill, as a camera - in the first place had to wait at the pedestrian crossing, which I had crossed it - yes, I'd like to know whether zuuu and how have photographed me now. But as I've read to obscure that Google, for privacy reasons in addition to license plate numbers and faces.

The end of April it was still on chip.de that the launch of the Google Maps extension can go online soon. I'm excited!

At last, a link Tip: On the Google Watch blog can be found here and here lots of further links on this topic.