This beautiful advertising campaign from Google, I do not want to hide from you advertised is for 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 are sprayed on the street, or a bus stop in a "screen", great idea.

Google Street View advertising on the street

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Everyone knows the service, although no German streets must be verified to date. This is partly so because the service comes on strong headwinds lately. And in some cases even cope ( via ). Hamburg, for example, Google issued a recording ban, if not certain datenrechtliche rules would comply. Also, the data protection of the countries have taken to the Barrikanden and finally they've managed that the search engine giant offers tailored specifically to Germany Privacy Tools. Who has complaints can contact directly or streetview-deutschland@google.com Google via an online form to request deletion of images.

The skepticism remains: For allegedly remain the raw data, first in the U.S. and secondly, unedited . Both for data protection remains a horror. For, in contrast to the reports of last week , writes world online now that Supervisor of the City of Caspar the Google Group a "closure order" for the data of the offer "Google Street View" grant the wishes, if the data protection legislation not should angwenden the raw data of the recordings.

The camera cars from Google were already many places on the road, recording in the city of Stuttgart are, for example for this month's planned ( via stuttgart.de ), here in Friedrichshafen I have a few weeks ago Google camera car saw a (nice weather goes with them) . The car with the black giant Cam - by the way, which made me more of a kettle grill, remembers as a camera - had to first set of pedestrian traffic light wait in which I crossed had then - I would indeed like to know zuuu whether and how I have now photographed. But as I've read, Google must make it for privacy reasons, in addition to license plates and faces unrecognizable.

End of April it was still called on chip.de that the launch of the Google Maps extension to go online soon as possible. I'm excited!

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