Google cars are not welcome in Germany

Since several months Google cars travel throughout cities in Europe to take photos being used on Google map's "Street Views".
They have been seen lately in a lot of towns in France.

But it seems that in the Northern Germany, particularly in the area of Schleswig-Holstein, these cars are not appreciated, if we go by what some local politics say : "We wouldn't accept this ! We don't want to be exposed on internet with our houses." "You may see everything on these shootings ! They will throw our houses open to criminals". "Google should grant for permission to proceed this way, but we would refuse"(Reinhold Harwart, CDU). "This is alarming !" (Gabriele Hiller-Ohm, SPD). "These files may be used by criminals" (Thorsten Geißler, CDU). "We just can't permit this" (Rainer Voß, maire de Ratzeburg).
This seems perfectly clear...

Good Luck to those drivers of Google cars who will be coming to this region (Apparently Google has postponed all shootings of Schleswig-Holstein area for at least this year)... :-)

Image source: Flickr

http://maps.google.com/

Source(s) :
Nord-Gemeinden rebellieren gegen Google (Lübecker Nachrichten)
Politicians Of Some German Cities Ponder Banning Google Cars (Google Blogoscoped)

All the web pages for street views...

Thursday, October 9, 2008

0 Comments:

Previous news

Archives

Other sites about search engines and SEO