Despite Germany Threatening to Sue Google, Only 3% Have Opted Out of Street View [Street View]

Discuss making a mountain out of a molehill. After rioting over Google Street View cars accidentally capturing Wi-Fi network details, lower than 3 per cent of Germans actually chose to opt out of having their houses on Street View.

That number equates to 244,237 requests from the 8,458,084 houses that were photographed for Street View, with Google giving Germans the approach to ban their houses from the service from April of this year. Privacy is obviously a enormous it’s because people don’t want their houses shown on Street View, even supposing you could see them when you walk or drive down the road yourself, but presumably the backlash over Google Street View cars accidentally capturing Wi-Fi network details was concern enough for folk to not want their abodes on the positioning.

This week, Google promised it will not collect Wi-Fi network details through its cars again. [ Reuters ]

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