244,000 Germans Demand Removal of Google Street View Imagery

Google yesterday announced that 244,237 out of 8,458,084 households (2.89 percent) want images of their homes to be blurred when Street View map imagery launches in Germany’s 20 biggest cities in a few weeks.

Since April 2009, residents were able to opt-out either by writing a letter to Google or using an online tool. Google said that residents can still ask for image blurring using the “report a problem” tool on Street View once imagery is published because Google said some people didn’t include precise locations in their removal request.

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