This holiday promotion of 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" are transmitted. Thus, the typical arrows and logo are sprayed on the road, or a bus stop in a "screen" turns, great idea.

Google Street View advertising on the road

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Everyone knows about the service, even though no German roads is to examine to date. This is partly so because the service met recently at a strong headwind. And in some cases even cope ( via ). Hamburg, for example, Google issued a recording ban, if certain data is not legal rules would comply. Also, the data protection of the countries have taken to the Barrikanden and finally one has done it, that the search giant offered to Germany specifically tailored data protection tools. Those who have complaints can contact them directly streetview-deutschland@google.com or Google using an online form to request deletion of images.

The skepticism remains: Because supposedly remain raw in the U.S. first and second raw . Both remain for privacy advocates is a horror. For in contrast to the reports of last week , writes BBC News now that issue of the Data Protection Commissioner of the City of Caspar the Google Group has a "closure order" for the dates of the offer "Google Street View", would, if the data protection legislation does not even should angwenden to the raw data of the recordings.

The camera cars from Google were already in many places on the road, shooting in the city of Stuttgart as this month plans ( via stuttgart.de ), here in Friedrichshafen, I've been a few weeks ago saw a Google camera car (of course when the weather is good) . The car with the big black-Cam - by the way, which made ​​me more of a kettle grill, remembers as a camera - had in the first row are waiting at the pedestrian crossing, which I had then crossed - I'd even know zuuu like whether and as I have now photographed. But as I've read, Google has to make due to data protection reasons, in addition to car number plates also faces unrecognizable.

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

Finally, another link Tip: On the GoogleWatchBlog you find here and there a lot of links on the subject.