Since April 2009, German home-owners and tenants have had the chance to write to Google to tell it to blur images of where they live. In August, Google supplemented this with an online tool through which these requests could also be made.Source: BBC News
Now the window to make requests has closed, Google said a total of 244,237 requests had been made to have homes and property obscured. This amounted to 2.9% of the 8.5 million households snapped for the German Street View service.
Almost 250,000 Germans say nein to Google Street View
Posted on Saturday, October 23 2010 @ 13:03 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck