Germany on Google’s ‘Unacceptable’ Information Policy

Minister Urges Germans to Opt Out of Google Street View

Germany’s consumer protection minister has long been critical of Google Street View, which displays panoramic pictures of towns, cities and individual homes. Now she has called the company’s information policy “unacceptable” and urged Germans to ask for their data to be removed from the service.

Google’s Street View service is controversial in Germany, where laws ensuring privacy and data protection are far stricter than in the United States. Now German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has called on ordinary Germans to opt out of the service.

Aigner told SPIEGEL that ordinary Germans should file a formal objection to Google if they didn’t want to have pictures of their houses and gardens “be put on the Internet for all the world to see, as well as being linked to other data.”

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