About a quarter a million Germans have requested Google show dim pictures of their homes on their Street View service. Defending its people, the German government said persons interested should make a request for the service if they are to let Google continue with Street View. In the same statement the government said people’s privacy was being violated if they never had the option to choose.

In getting into Germany, Street View said people will be allowed to use a webform so that their homes could be obscured. German landlords and tenants have been requesting Google to dim the images of where they live since April 2009. To their effect Google in August provided a tool that provided a means on which the same would be made.

Google closed the window of making requests and got a total of 244,237 requests to have specific homes well obscured. That not withstanding, Google has gone ahead and claimed it was not sure if all the requests made would be honored.

This is not however a problem to Google but that, some of the requests made were not clear on the specifics pertaining to address and descriptions.

Germany has given Google a hard nut to crack; Hamburg information commissioner request brought to light Google’s information on private data out of wi-fi network, albeit mistakenly.

The company has other multiple problems from other places including one in Canada on snapping images violating privacy laws, in Czech government banned photographs from the body and another in South Korea where the Google offices were raided before a new version of Street View for the nation was unveiled.

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