{"id":14581,"date":"2010-08-20T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-20T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T09:23:00","slug":"google-defends-street-view-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/14581-google-defends-street-view-in-germany.html","title":{"rendered":"Google defends Street View in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s vice president for Northern and Central Europe, Philipp Schindler, told Thursday&#8217;s mass circulation daily Bild the company had found a unique data security agreement with German agencies as early as last year.<\/p>\n<p>Schindler says that only in Germany are consumers given the right to opt out of having their homes shown on &#8220;Street View&#8221; before the feature has even started.<\/p>\n<p>He says while Google is respecting people&#8217;s privacy, &#8220;there is nothing more public than the outside of buildings.&#8221; Schindler says hundreds of thousands of Germans are using the feature to check out cities abroad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/260293-Google-defends-their-Street-View-in-Germany\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Google defends Street View in Germany\"><strong>Google defends their Street View in Germany<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc. is defending its &quot;Street View&quot; feature against sharp criticism in Germany saying it has gone a long way to address people&#039;s privacy concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}