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sladys
10-24-2008, 03:13 PM
According to the german online newspaper Bild.de Google will upload Streetview in the beginning of 2009 after a lot of difficulties and discussions and privacy problems.

According to Bild.de a german mayor was worried that burglars could use StreetView to look into houses, but a spokesman from Google Germany says no burglar in the world would use StreetView for their burgaries.

And then the problem of showing people in the images.

http://www.bild.de/BILD/digital/technikwelt/2008/10/22/google-streetview/startet-in-deutschland-berlin-muenchen-frankfurt-kontroverse-um-datenschutz.html

This is where StreetView would show up:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=117012043329211510000.000454921999944eb6c75&z=6