Why There's Almost No Google Street View In Germany - Cheddar Explains
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2020
- Have you ever used Google Street View to look around Europe and wondered why Germany is almost entirely blank? For years Google has tried to get Street View into the country, yet has faced heavy public backlash every time. Cheddar explains why Germany is so anit-Street View, and why Google won't give up the fight.
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As a german, i can say that this is wrong. There is no street view in germany, because there is no internet in germany. We still use smoke signs and carrier pigeons.
And I thought Germany was the better country in a crowd for protecting privacy. ..but you know, even in the worst parts of Russia and Africa, they have street view. 🤷♂️
@@draugnaustaunikunhymnphoo6978 did you just get wooooshed?
You're totally wrong
@@erddun If you didn't know, Google street cars don't need internet. 🤣
i thought you were for real at first
As a german i didn't even know we have basically no street view and taught it was normal that you're only able to use it on certain bigger streets. But data privacy and security is a huge deal here. At school we always had to sign a form, stating that we are ok with being in the Class photo each year 😂 it's the little things you absolutely don't think about that are often the weirdest about your home country
The school picture thing, we have that here too in the Netherlands now, and my school just said they wouldn't even bother to take class pictures now
Signing a form is required because of GDPR
Fun fact: Germany lost 2 world wars
@@asjadazeez what is that pathetic attempt trying to achieve?
@@bruh-mb1rd I wonder when will it happen that the school needs to ask your permission to store records of your grades.
"3% wanted their houses blurred"
The street I'm living in: make it 70%
In my "Dorf" it is like 99%
I wonder why everyone is so spooked collectively? It's kinda like a herd of cows when one spazzes out. They don't all know why they should be flipping shit, but a couple are, so I guess they have the right idea
We don’t want our house blurred bc the pic is 5 years old
@@Elitus I don't even live in a "Dorf" but it's still like 99% lmao
Make it 95%.
Google: lets make stre-
Germany: *no*
@@Themarc07 there is enough young people that are concerned too. I don't mind it too much but I still like my privacy. That's why I share as little as possible about myself
@@fuckinantipope5511 Same. I'm still really cautious with data on the Internet.
And honestly, I agree with what the German court enacted. I really would not like my house to be visible by anybody from the internet.
@@Themarc07 It is by no means just the old people, there are also many young people against street view, myself included.
Germany: *Nein*
NEIN!
"You see that white spot there? It's not a glitch, it's Germany"
Cheddar, 2020
Adolf Hitler describing Germany to Joseph Goebbels, 1929, colonized
well they clearly know what they doing.. local know where to go and only visitor would need to used them...
White spot, not blob
That hurt me
Europe in general.
germany knows a thing or two because they've seen a thing or two
GEICO GUY
I HATE HIM HE IS A STUPID
@@bawicz0thats the Allstate guy
Germany didn't learn shit. People still get locked up for criticizing the government.
Don't be fooled.
@@doggonongrata8905 haha
@@doggonongrata8905 they ain’t doing shit.
This is called "Strategischer Vorteil".
You know. Just in case : )
Haha 5head
@unknowntrojan
The First good rockets were based on the german V1.
We Made a Backdoor in Rocket Design so every Satellite Shows wrong images of Germany.
Prove me wrong xD
hahahahahahahahah ahahahaha thas actually funny
Wir können ganz einfach nach Frankreich einmarschieren und kenne den besten Weg und dann holen die die weißen Fahnen draußen
@@maximilianmueller4748
Haben sie die überhaupt Weck geräumt?
Video: Has the word "German" in the title.
Germans: I have been summoned, explain.
Pegman
Data sharing
Mention India once in thre title and see the views roaring. 😂
Yeah it's true I was summoned here xD But I guess it's kind of normal for example, if you were American and you'd see a video with the word "America" or "USA" in the title, you'd probably want to know what it's about but I probably didn't need to say that lmao. Everyone, stay healthy and safe :D
The rest of the world:
Germany: N E I N
Also Belarus
@@kgk976 India: “Am I a joke to both of you?”
G E S C H L O S S E N
Nine*
Germany still can't beat the Google street view coverage in North korea.
The most secure data, is data, that isn't collected in the first place. Cheers from Germany
Ja mann
Then it’s just boring
Nah. Boo.
Says the person watching youtube, a Google service
Do you guys have UA-cam there? =))) or are you using a VPN?
"Its not a glitch, its Germany" Aua, das tat weh😂
XD
You could say that about German politics and how Germany handles the pandemic as well. Pure chaos. Its fricking embarassing.
Fühl ich
Or as the natives say: Funkloch.
einbrecher lieben es
I personally like the current state of street view in Germany. My home town is one of the few that had street view imagery taken back in 2008. And as it's not updated it's kind of a time capsule for me to see what the place I grew up in looked like when I was a kid. It's quite nostalgic to look at.
Outside Germany you can view your street from different years. The downloadable version lets you view historic aerial photos, so you can see old road layouts and buildings, or even how climate change has affected the world.
You can view your street in any time you want
even if it's updated, you can still see historical imagery
Manchmal gehe ich nur auf Streetview um mir meinen alten Plus Markt, Konsum und Schlecker anzugucken
I'm sure, google will not delete updated pictures.. so a future feature could be "how did this street look like in [put here drop-down box with available timestamps]"
the answer is pretty obvious: PRIVACY
Yes, but how it's managed is important
More like a privacy fetish
@@Chrischi4598 as they should
@@samuelthornton9179 they shouldn’t because it’s reaching levels where people value their privacy more then the lives of others as we have seen during the pandemic. We can’t really trace back cases because of privacy laws. When you have to choose between privacy or saving life’s is privacy really the option you should choose?!
@@Chrischi4598 Hello, are in Germany?
A street view car drove by one time (i live in germany) and then i did a bunch of wheelies on my bike and the dude seemed quite pissed off. I think thats why he dont upload
on behalf of the other 97% percent I thank you
I did the same thing. Also never uploaded the street...
I once saw the google street view car drove by when I was little and at that moment our street was in horrendous conditions. It has been renewed since a few years and I even SAW another street view car 2 years ago BUT NOPE on street view my street is still the ugly old one! I'm PISSED
@@ginnundso
My dad was also spied on by the stasi
@@m4d_al3x Oh wow! Was he critical of the government too?
Living in Germany and I feel so safe knowing that it's illegal to take photos and videos of people without their permission. I wish I could have this much freedom all over the world. Its the way things should be. You are free to live life as people should.
@@AwsmBuff Like in America
This is actually a good thing imo that they don't have street view because then it would be more exciting to travel and see the region in person, rather than just sitting and watching the country from a computer screen.
I live in Germany too and I hate it you can’t even have a dash cam in your car
@@teekanne5330 r/ihadastroke
@@MT07ridez dashcams are allowed. You're just not allowed to publish the footage without consent. But you are allowed to use the footage to show to insurense or the police as evidence.
Most streetview images in Germany haven’t been updated since 2008.
Whenever I feel nostalgic, I look up the places I used to go when I was a child.
One can still see Schlecker and the hair salon of my aunt. My aunt died 2008 and her hair salon died with her. So yeah..
@@Aridrestia Schlecker next to Quelle? :D
Wow I just checked the satellite photos seem fairly recent which annoys me. Like the fuck do you want to know how my house looks from above.
But the streetview images are soooo old, there is still the treehouse which has been gone for quite a while.
@@Ikxi Satellite images (actually those are taken from planes) are really a privacy problem. In Hamburg the super rich people often live in mansions that you can't even see from street level, but from above you can easily see them and you can even go back to the construction phase to see the room layout from above. That information is priceless for criminals.
From above you may also be able to identify parked cars worth stealing. Professional car thefts often steal on demand. If someone wants a red Audi A6, they will look where they can find such a car. Google makes that much easier.
The issue here is seeing Germany as the outlier instead of the norm. Germany learned painfully at their expense the value of privacy. The rest of us keep giving way one of the most important the threaten civil rights. I've heard it from somewhere that the last few generations' revolutions in recent times fought for democracy and liberty, ours will need to fight for privacy.
Nice!
Iran and Iraq also dont have street view, same for north korea lol
Good point!
I prefer giving away a bit more privacy than the Germans. The benefits are worth it.
Finally someone pointing out the obvious, but for some reason untold little scary truth. Thanks :-)
4:34 actually, releasing dashcam footage with readable license plates is illegal because of all the same points you mentioned
Which is why dashcam footage is not valid evidence in court. If you present evidence to court, it is considered as 'being brought to the public eye'
I am not a lawyer
@@Felixkeeg sometimes it is, sometimes it isnt. so if you ever get crimed on dont 100% rely on your dashcam
Thats just ridiculous.
So absolute indisputable evidence becomes null & void... Germany is definitely going too far in that regard. They've over corrected.
@@Felixkeeg This is WRONG. Dashcam footage in general can be admissible in court, if the judge deems it so. So if there is no big damages and no one was harmed, it will most likely not be admissible, because the right of privacy will be seen as more important than whatever happened. But if people got hurt or there is big damages, it's most likely that it will be ruled as admissible. And if it's not, but it's still a severe case you can always take it to a higher up court.
@@LucaBl This, and even if all instances declare it void you can still go before other courts to over throw that and get the case rolled up again if you have for example a valid point of your evidence being more important than the privacy laws.
I remember the day I tried to rend a house in Germany and I said "ok let's just take a look at the neighborhood" . Obviously no street view anywhere. Now I know why.
Pls tell me why
🤣
As a Dutch resident in Germany, I can add to this.
Firstly, Germans love their privacy (as well explained in this video), they are generally technophobic towards IT and have a low IT implementation in the government, they love their Fax and paper.
As for Streetview, the hostility to it was rather whipped up by the tabloid press, and I can remember many a German being filmed in their front yard for TV news where they then told us they didn't want to be visible to everyone on Streetview. The irony of this was hilarious.
@@sirensynapse5603 In Summer it keeps the sun out and that is very nice in a heat wave, at night it keeps noise and light out, so you sleep better.
@@sirensynapse5603 Rolldown shutters are actually genious, I live in Austria and everybody has them there as well. It's helpful when, you know, are doing activities where your neighbour maybe should not see you 😄
"Its not a glitch - its Germany" that made me spit out my water😂
Germany being Germany nothing unusual here as long as you are from Germany we are used to this shit.
@@Black-Re4per lmao true
Germany is a glitch of extremisms.
Germany is 3rd worlder country. I do not like living in Berlin
@@phoenix1453 I came back from Berlin yesterday and kinda liked it. I mean yea it looks bad and old in some parts but its not much of a 3rd world place
fines multibillion dollar company 100k
"Ha that will show them"
Lmao
XD
my idea 10% of renenue at first offence + 5% added on addiotional one. ALL That cash, where should be spending it(spoiler no Military) like edu, broadband build outs(germany has shitty internet(deutsche telekom owns all the connections)).
That was with the old laws before the new EU data protection laws (called DSGVO in Germany) have been passed. Now fines for violations of data protection can base on a percantage of the income of a company.
Like taking a spud gun to a fight
Now that I think about it... I was never asked if I wanted my house blurred 🤔
You had a timeframe for this :) Google gave informations about this
It was in the news for quite a while, I told them to blurr my hourse, it was quite an easy process with an internet form tbh. I also made them blurr my parents home without ever talking to them about it. And I made them blurr some of my neighbors homes because I figured my house could maybe seen from weird angles.
@@moos5221 Gute Arbeit Kamerad. Ich frage mich nur eins: Ich bin seit dem umgezogen und mein neues Haus ist nicht zensiert - wie kann ich das nachholen ?
@@0M9H4X_Neckbeard Frag mal Google, der weiß alles.
@@moos5221 That sounds so... extra? What could possibly happen if someone sees a pic of a building? i mean..
My building actually has a Wikipedia page with both exterior and interior photos... but it's still fully blurred on Street View lol
I love it, you're just fucking with Google at that point
@@0M9H4X_Neckbeard well, somebody has to... google deserves to be fucked with :P
Difference is that Wikipedia is public domain, and Google's street view is not. If we have mass data collection happening at very least it should become public domain. Now we have a completely messed up situation where only big-tech have ability to collect data on large scales, and only they can then profit of it, we are literally getting deeper and deeper into situation where more and more of our life is literally owned in some way by 1 of few largest companies. Facebook literally owns all social online networks in Europe at least - and there is no way someone else could break into this market without throwing out tens of billions euros, even though a handful of developers could build a competitive application on on-par or even better in terms of features in a span of 1-2 years.
4:28 Speaking of Privacy, many German dash-cam channels would censor the numberplates as that can already get you a fine.
Like it should be
One german dash-cam channel (Sascha Fahrnünftig) already got fined for showing license plate uncensored. Sascha's videos are mostly about bad driving so its understandable why people did not want to see their license plate in his videos.
@@EppelheimTV but he censored the bad drivers already, he must censor all number plates.
Actually just using a dash cam in your car can get you a fine (when it's running all the time) since it's not allowed to film random people without their consent even when you won't make the footage publicly available. There are some exceptions like if you are filming something (like a building or make a picture of someone you know with consent) and there are other bystanders in the background or at the side (generally speaking: these people are not the main focus of your shot) you don't need to ask them for consent or if you film a crowd of 25+ people you don't need to ask for consent etc.
But just filming the driver in front of you (that's what dash cams do most of the time) is not allowed and therefore most courts won't accept dashcam footage (so it's basically useless having a dash cam in germany and even might get you in trouble)...
Technically even just the filming itself is already against the data protection law here in Germany(and EU). You are not allowed to collet any data which can identify someone, without their acceptance. There is just few exceptions, like it is in the interest for the public(news media coverage) or places where it's expected to be filmed(in front of sightseeing objects/ or Concerts)
Germans when they see "german" in the video title:
Hippedy hoppedy this comment section is now my property
Korrekt.
Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun im Besitz der BRD.
Alles gehört uns
Any comment section for any nation really. The algorithm just continues to suggest videos about your country. (Which really attracts people because nationalism I guess.) It's interesting how you are not likely to find a video about a certain nation with its name in the title without a plethora of citizens of that country in the comment section. (Well at least when that country has a big enough population with Internet access that is.)
Die Kommentarsektion gehört uns.
Und das nach nur drei wochen geschafft.
...
Ich glaube ich hab nh dejavu🤔
2:50 That's not even Germany, but the parliament building in Oslo, Norway...
It's a video for Americans, not worth the effort.
Around 7:05 the railway station is in Canada. This channel is garbage and always uses videos from irrelevant places.
I know i was first thinking if it was a picture from the occupation (1940-1945), based on the facade it must me from later. Since it does not have the germane banner on it.
Doesnt matter....americans dont care geography!
Weil die amerikaner den unterschied nicht kennen werden
As a german, I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google Search.
And you watch UA-cam that is Google's app so its like nothing :(
@@ZEDEES1 It's not like "nothing" because you use yt, it still gives you protection. That's like saying your virus checker is nothing because you don't go to Shandy sites
@@mitu_the_cat who said that ?? No one can know whats exactly the company can do, so don't tell me that it can't collect any data bcs no1 knows . Maybe ur right or wrong who knows
@@aansherina4536 there is no protection bro if u want protection don't use any Google's apps do u agree??
@@ZEDEES1 i set my privacy settings to not collect any data
and they(google) are required to follow that because of german and other countrys laws
if no country had those laws then google wouldnt even have the option to opt out of the data collection
I remember when it launched here. It didn't really help that some of the license plates and faces remained unblurred after publishing. But like they say, the data still is really old. I can still see my curtains hanging in the house I moved out of like 10 years ago
I have experienced similar things
Seriously, my mom's restuarant is in Google street view and it looks totally different from now. Also our house is on the same street but now has an 7ft fence
well, depends on how important your area is.
If it is, it's updated more frequently.
maybe they liked the curtains
@@ericolens3 bro stfu no body finna read all that
One cool thing about the whole street view debacle: Looking through the pictures of a mapped city like Berlin feels like going back 100 years in the past - even though is 'just' 12 years old data. So much has changed in this short amount of time.
Yes one Airport was built. Go to hell Berlin!!!! I Hope you can one day move to Frankfurt and leave that DDR Chaos that ist still ruling Berlin.
Dear Berliner i would rather be a Hamburger
@@marcbeebee6969 id prefer to be a sandwich
@@oscarkronborg7176 No you Need to be a Frankfurter or the lyoners are the only sausages in this Story.
@@marcbeebee6969 so basically you’re too weak for Berlin, gotcha...byyyeeee
@@marcbeebee6969 Bavaria/Munich above all else (laughs in Oktoberfest)
Privacy is one of the biggest forefront of your safety. If an individual has information about you they can manipulate you in any way they desire. Harassment, Sexual misconduct, Blackmail, Violence, Theft, Manipulation and/or destruction of ones Life.
The more info you have about someone, the more power you have over them.
Imagine being stalked.
Someone is always looking over your shoulder.
Someone that is always there.
Someone that changes your surroundings, your relationships, your truths.
Just so they can manipulate you into doing things they want you to do.
Like manipulate you into spending your money on things you didn't even intend to spent it on.
To change your world and political view. To accept and/or ignore mistakes, fallacies, Dangers and Risks.
And you dont even realize it.
Information/knowledge is pure POWER. You definitely have heard that phrase before.
And you know or will come to know that that is always and will always be True.
My Generation and the Generations after mine are being manipulated into accepting the loss of control over your Privacy.
Having your information not being stolen is a abnormality nowadays.
Something that will throw you out of the social loop. Something that can impact your life negative or make your life harder.
Just because you don't want to be surveillanced to the core of your being.
If you are ignorant about the subject or try to down talk the severity of the issue. Then you should not be surprised when it is used against you.
We are already at the point where IAs are being trained to act like you in order to better Predict you.
Funny that Germans are proclaim to be overly harsh with their information privacy.
When everybody else is just to Soft and doesn't want to face the issue.
I agree and I want to add, I don't want to say that other countries don't care about their private information being save or that we are "better" (we are not "better" or "above" everyone else, if you think like that then you are an idiot to me btw)
but I guess they've never had a time, where you could trust no one, not even your family because everyone could be a spy lol , so they might never had the "need" for a law that saves your private informations. :D
That was how it was like for the people in the DDR until 1989, if the government knew that you didn't like/ agree with something they said, then you might not get a job or your daughter couldn't go to school or you/ her could go into jail (Torgau was a thing, where they would send children to, "to make them better" (you could say more "fitting" for the socialistic goverment) because in their opinions, having your own opinions or freedom was bad, you had to follow the "Kollektiv". They told the people that it was "good for them". They taught them how they should be have and treated them like a adults).
And they denied that there were nationalsozialists in the east so, you know that that's denied a FACT, and they killed the democracy by having only one thing, that you could vote so, you probably can guess why the people were happy to have "one" Germany again. Lol
I do agree and I am part of the new generation of germany so I think there is hope
thats a long comment
Exactly. If anyone thinks "oh I don't care that large uncontrollable companies are collecting information on me, it's just for ads lol" they're fooling themselves.
God I love it when videos are stuffed with fluff and don't actually discuss the topic in the title
They need to seem smart
The answer is: Google faced public backlash. Legally they're in the clear as long as they blur faces, license plates and record from a human vantage point (not peek over fences). Apple Look Around, their version of Street View, just launched this summer and no public outcry so far (Apple, too, offers the option to blur your house. But that's available worldwide.)
It's like a time trip when I use Google Street view in my neighborhood in Germany
It always brings you back to 2008
Yeah, I can look at my old car.
You have street view?
@@djarymusic Only in some big cities like Cologne, Berlin or Hamburg
@@djarymusic And the footage was recorded in 2008
In Germany we call this DATENSCHUTZ!
Too much Daten schutz
In der Schule mussten wir immer unterschreiben dass wir auf dem klassenfoto sein dürfen
@@steve_1507 was ist dieses "zu viel Datenschutz"? Das kenne ich nicht.
@@steve_1507 Das beste war wenn sich die Lehrer nicht daran orientiert haben ob die nötigen Unterschriften da waren. Als ich schon erwachsen war, habe ich die Unterschrift für Video- und Tonaufnahmen verweigert, und mein Musiklehrer hat trotzdem gefordert dass ich an den Tonaufnahmen teilnehme. Aber hey...
@@steve_1507 armes deutschland
At least Germany respects your privacy unlike the US 🗿
At least Germany lets you have opinions, unlike the leftist side of US
As long as you don't mention the War!
@@fosminclorin whoa there buddy, you're gonna start a comment war with that kind of opinion
@@wackiest10 me in germany watching the war 👁👄👁
@@tomkent4656 the war is mentioned a lot here because at least we germans know how to remember our past in the way it happend, not through rose tinted glasses. Unlike almost all other countries who just repeat their history and don't learn from it
I am German and was always wondering why that is. Thanks for pointing out so thoroughly! ☺️ Also, taking into consideration our country's history, I have more understanding for the concerns...
They could just make a 1 second video saying "because privacy," that's it.
Nah this way it gives one more reason to dislike communists
@@doniel370 what the fuck are you talking about? The East Germany thing or what?
But if they did that then no one would be watching advertising.
Stay strong comrade!
@Ossie112 I said nothing about the US
Privacy laws
Justin Y, is that you?
Coming here from Gbay99 to see you again
And I‘m happy to have them
Not you again go away
Thanks for saving my time
"Oh wait, you see that big white spot? It's not a glitch. It's Germany."
😂😂😂
the paying in cash thing isn’t actually bc of paranoia our cashless pay options are just dogshit, like you’ll be out shopping one place fully decked out in tech, get to the next store and you’d be lucky if they take credit cards , it’s wild
Plus credit cards aren't really a thing. Yes, we do pay per card, but those are debit cards from out bank accounts. The difference basically comes down to not spending money you don't own.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I like this mentality. I don't use credit card either, I also refuse to pay through e-wallet. Cash is still my favorite.
7:51 'Germany's caution' is perfectly illustrated by a picture from London.
v2 go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Lol
When they talk about East German secret police, they show pictures of when the wall was coming down. 😅
Bruh
what about 7:05 which is a video of kitchener, ontario near their railway station?
"almost every country".... Most of Africa is not on street view so I'm not sure what 98% represents.
It's possible to upload your own 360 views to street view, and most countries have at least one user submitted 360 photo, they might be using that to fudge the numbers.
lots of street view isnt there
Africa doesnt even have that manhly streets lol.
China also has no street view because they deem it as “a threat to national security”
@@Peng_Pong yeah but poh says that about everything
There’s a very weird border section with Belgium and Germany called the Vennbahn. It’s a former rail track that belonged to Belgium, even if it passed Germany, causing a very weird border situation where there were strips of a few meter wide in Germany belonging to Belgium. Even after the track got closed, Belgium kept the land area.
So I looked on streetview on a road crossing that track, and literally nothing of that road was available, except for 2 spots. You guessed it, the parts in Belgium, very funny imo.
I was wondering myself why there's so few street view spots. When I was younger I couldn't understand, why people are so feared of things like street view but by seeing what huge amounts of information they and anyone else can gather about you, my opinion changed a LOT.
As history has shown us: To much private data in other hands leads to bad things
My first though was wait but we du have street view, wtf? And I just realized that other countries have way better and more accurate street view, I always thought it was normal that you can't see a lot of streets haha
Yea same I didn't question the blurred houses or some streets or cities being completely unavailable xD
Or that the Images are so old
Are you living in a big city? Cause most places don't have any streetview at all.
@@lmn6023 I mean yea my city has about 400.000 people
@syanin dita My comment was only about Germany
I lived in the east of germany in 2019. we had a room in the cellar with multiple „phone lines“ in it. Connected to each apartment in the block. As stasi agent you were able to connect a cable to an apartment and your phone in the cellar to listen to everyone living in the building.
My housekeeper showed me.
The fun thing is, that I can see how Berlin was Years ago and see the buildings and everything from my childhood.
I have to check the fotage of BER!
Ja wir haben 2013 unsere Terrasse “repariert” und das sieht man auf street view nicht mal
Ja wir haben 2013 unsere Terrasse “repariert” und das sieht man auf street view nicht mal hahaha
With google streetview, France would be able to see Germany remilitarizing the Rheinland.
Uhm what ? No nothing no see there.. at all. Really noting important going on there! Or anywhere no remilitarising in Germany 👍🏻
And there isn't, really, if you look at the state of our armed forces equipment 🤷🏼♂️
I had the same thought. And, a lot of Germans in the comments are making a big show of downplaying the possibility of that... I wonder if every blur does not hide a Tiger III or two... (You know, the Emperor Tiger.)
@@diewaarheid9431 I know it for sure, Merkel is preparing the troops for battle.
Are u guys on drugs or what wtf?!?
I literally saw 2 streetviewcars in Germany but the places where I saw them aren’t displayed in streetview
Same happend to me last month. I checked but my city has no streetview so I wonder if they try again to sample the data and the ask for permission to publish it.
Same. I should be standing at a traffic light in Street view, but the place was never included. And that was like 9 years ago.
They collect the data for themselves without intent of publishing
Das dauert halt bis die Daten verarbeitet werden. Bei mir in einem kleinen Dorf war auch ein Apple Maps Auto, und das ist jetzt ungefähr ein halbes Jahr her.
My neighborhood has street view but the pics are at least 5 years old, my neighborhood doesn’t even look the same
I've been looking for this for months, thank you for making this.
This is actually cool. You can go on a live "time travel" in some cities. I like it.
you can click the "street view-[ *time* ]" button and do the same thing
“But its not for googles lack of trying!” Literally thought she was gonna say they tried 10 times or something thats worth the dramatic emphasis😂
Google is not an organization that asks twice. If something doesn't work even thou that much power is involved, there is no use in trying again.
4:42
The guy was austrian, not german.
I feal like many Americans still think Germany and Austria are ONE County
@@papalpatte
Arent we?
'Actually Looks south.'
Oh nooo.
Leave us alone you mountain freaks and take Bavaria with you !!!
Maybe that's why he didn't want Google to film him while being in Germany?
But the news screenshot they show doesn't say it happened in Austria. It talks about Germany and then says the guy is Austrian. So it could be an Austrian guy living in Germany too.
Most Austrians are ethnically german
Update: Google announced Street View is coming back to Germany
The reason only 200 brits asked to get their houses blurred is because no one knows you can actually go against this or we weren’t even asked about it, it just happened! You can’t turn down something if you weren’t asked!
Wow, I didn't even know you could have your house blurred on Google Street View!
I blurred my homes all the time. Many criminals use street view to see what you might have and case out a joint. Good to have that barrier.
@@ARandomFurry That is an urban legend.
@@ARandomFurry Burglar note to self - move all blurred addresses to top of list.
@@ARandomFurry how many homes do you have? Lol
@@ARandomFurry Looking at a home's exterior to guess what might be inside? I dunno, that's a very effective strategy.
Why did you call Ilse Agner „Alice“
Because Americans can't pronounce German names.
Give her a break. She is the first presenter cheddar have hired that does not look dead behind their eyes.
Let's hope they are paying her.
Nuculear, Asteriks...
In south west germany, there is a group of people that continued street view by themselves, and they're taking more pictures every day. You can see a big spot of it when you go over the south west, in particular the city Reutlingen
I love streetview. I can come to places I would never see otherwise. I can spend hours looking around the world sometimes. Love it.
Do we have to teach another American company why personal well being is more important, than a companies interest?
@Имперский Защитник I ain’t being lectured about anything by a russian.
Street view assists the well being of mnillions.
@@matbroomfield how?? All it is is a cool gimmick, i bet most people forgot it even existed
fam I wanna see Germany
@@potto1488 Yeah, it looks beautiful.
About Germany, and you include four seconds of footage of Norway’s parliament (2:48-2:52)??
Yes... and „nucular“
Dont comfuse people, thats actually footage from north korea
@@wanttodor_mir In some dialects it's pronounced that way.
seneca983 the root of the word: "nucleus". Arguing by analogy, "Molecular comes from molecule, and particular comes from particle, but there is no nucule to support nucular."
@@wanttodor_mir But the pronunciation differing or shifting away from the root is not uncommon. Compare this to e.g. the first vowel in "demon" vs. "demonic" or "angel" vs. "angelic".
As a Russian,I'd rather have German privacy laws than Google Street view :/
Although I have nothing against Google Street view in general, as long as they blur faces and plates automatically, and blur houses on demand.
It's just funny to see how some places used to look around 10 years ago :))
Me, who didn't even think of trying street view in Germany: 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛
Funny, South Korea has a similar axe to grind against Google Maps. Absolutely no street view, or, hell, even Transit maps for that matter.
EDIT: Holy hell this post exploded. I'd like to make a few corrections, as some have pointed out, yes, South Korea does indeed have Street View. I meant to say that South Korea, although it has street view, has no street directions or navigational ability in Google maps whatsoever. So if you want directions from point A to point B, ie, GPS navigation, you're gonna need other apps' help for that.
My apologies for the error.
Congratulations 🎉👏 of being the top comment 👍😁 (as of now 😈)
@@itstomatogear6806 ha
@@itstomatogear6806 is this really an achievement lmao
what about Samsung...I read somewhere that Samsung is doing worse in S. Korea than what Google is doing USA...but yes what I read might be wrong or twisted.
South Korea is a very different case. Google is pretty rough there, but it's because they protect themselves from foreign companies. If you try the mapping app from one of their domestic services like Naver or Kakao, it has all the features Google Maps have worldwide and they work fine. Directions, transit, street view, everything. Heck, even Bing maps work better than Google in Korea. It's just because they refuse to release mapping data to Google, which is largely because Google does not want to blur their satellite photos of military bases... It's complicated, I don't fully get all the details, but that's the gist of it. Tl;dr Koreans don't mind street view, they just don't want Google doing that.
I get the privacy thing. However one thing I love the most about street view is the fact they record places over & over again and you can go back and look at older streetviews. It's really the closest thing we got to a time machine.
5:10 You forgot to multiply by 100 when calculating that percentage. So the number is off by a hundredfold. Still a huge difference compared to Germany though
I saw the title and was like "wait...is it?! I'm here in Germany"
00:19 - that' Rothenburg...I live nearby. What a coincidence
Lol same
Tbf I rarely ever use it to begin with
Good for Germans! All Big Tech must be regulated...
@@krunoslavregvar477 Regulations have to be justified logically and scientifically. Not be excessive or ridiculous.
It gets really interesting when you Play geoguesser in Germany, There are only so many places it can be ^o^
Also great for recognising when you _are_ in Germany.
Privacy and savety is one of the most important thing for a human beeing these days.
It's unfortunate that Germany objects to Streetview. For historians, especially architectural historians and preservationists, the ability to look back at the condition and appearance of buildings over time is a wonderful resource.
I fail to understand how Streetview is an infringement on anyone's privacy. Your house sits on the street and that view of your house is a public view. You can't object to someone looking at your house from the street. How does a photograph of it change that basic fact?
4:38 "A 70-year-old AUSTRIAN" - you know, like when talking about the United States and stating and AUSTRALIAN did something... Cheddar, learn geography.
Cheddar just advocates the Anschluss 2.0
@@user-xr5up3ed3z Oh, yes, that's the goal of the people who demonstrate against masks and shutdowns by attending those... what do you call them? Kundge... no. Ah, Idiotenzaehlung!
well actually it’s more like stating a Canadian did something
I think many Americans are just too lazy to learn about European History and therefore just dont care the German Empire with Austia as a part of it isnt a thing anymore (I mean since fucking 75 Years and still they dont learn)
:)
ANSCHLUSSZEIT
To be clear: does this apply to Austria, as well? Austria is only mentioned halfway through the video, though it's a completely different country with different laws. As most Austrians might tell you, they're definitely not Germans. 😅
I have 4 austrian friends and they all agree, austrian government is so lazy they just watch what germany does, then copy it. Maybe change some minor details here and there so that it looks like they have put effort in it. 😂
Ihr seid das 17te Bundesland seht es endlich ein xD
@Dave Baton You know that modern day Austria is actually the former (majority) German part of the Habsburg Empire or Austria-Hungary (minus the former Sudetenland) and German Nationalism in Austria didn't started after WW1.
They are most definitely ethnically and culturally German but not politically as they have their own independent country.
@@theodorkorner1497 They aren‘t ethnically German in that sense, they just both derive from the germanic people.
@@chunche1802 No it's not the same like the relationship of e.g. Germans and Norwegians. They are part of the German culture, language and ethnic group not just of the much wider Germanic one.
@Cheddar 3:55 the side graphics on the top left and bottom right are a little big don't you think?
This video is what got me to turn on notifications. Fantastic video, concise yet detailed information oh, and a topic that is very relevant today
"There is no secret service in existence that would collect photos so unabashedly"
... has she read about the NSA and CIA
Does the NSA and CIA have special recording cars that try to track every street?
Ilse Aigner said this before we new how much NSA collected. But you are right...
@@relo999 No they just hack into security cameras
@@relo999 No but they can easily access those
@@moranii1843 Probably, but they don't. If only because it's to expensive and a giant waste of money to get barely any intel.
The issue with google and such is that they collect giant pools of largely useless data, very openly. Compared to Google, the NSA and CIA are like price snipers when it comes to information while google is nuking the target from orbit.
I'm a privacy nut. And honestly... I think their concerns are misdirected.
What your house looks like from the outside isn't important to anyone. There isn't much that can be gleamed from that, and no one really cares about it that much.
ON THE OTHER HAND, your online activity, THAT is something absolutely paramount, and left with very little to no protection.
And not because of whatever weird porn you may or may not watch.
Simply looking at which articles you read, which headlines & video suggestions you clicked on, and which you scrolled past, what you said on social media, the phrasing and vocabulary used, and who you interacted with: All that can give tremendous informations about your own private thoughts.
From your political opinions to your mood, there is little that can't be deduced from it. No need for humans to do the analysis work, bots can do at no cost and on massive scales.
And they do! For advertisers, of course, but also political parties, who wish to discourage the other side from voting and motivate their own, or target people still susceptible to change their minds with tailored propaganda (often disguised as poll results and news articles). Effectively, manipulating elections before voting even occurs.
This means automatically gathering and maintaining nominative lists of people and their political affiliations! The Stasi's wet dream!
And at the same time, the use social media make of it is specifically to deliver content customized to keep as much of people's attention as possible. ("Maximizing viewer engagement", as they like to put it.)
Not only is it addiction by design, but their algorithms have learnt to do so by leveraging our own biases, only showing us content that never challenges our opinions, and, on the contrary, reinforces us in our beliefs, whether justified or not. This is largely what has been driving the widening political divide we've been seeing in recent years throughout the western world.
There are fortunately some ways to fight back against it. One is legislation: in Europe, the GDPR laws were certainly a step in the right direction. More can still be done.
Another is to take our own privacy seriously. Sites like UA-cam are now required to offer options to turn off tracking, and we should all do so in our preferences. Browsers like Brave and Firefox are becoming much-more privacy oriented, and a number of extensions (uMatrix, uBlock, etc) help limit the extent to which we're tracked.
Unfortunately, too few people bother to take care of this.
Very true.
Google is the c.i.a
I agree in all but one aspect. Why shouldn't Germans be against street view *and* want strong data protection laws? Big Data shouldn't be underestimated.
I don't think this is that bad honestly. Sure, I will receive ads that appeal to me, and during elections, people will knock on my door because they know I am leaning towards a certain candidate and they know what issues I care about (this hasn't happened in my country yet but it's on its way). It's good in the sense that companies are giving me what I want because it's a waste of my time and their time when they give me something I am not interested in. So as long as they don't do anything damaging, it's fine. Then again, I am Swede. If I told you my name, you know how much I earn, how much taxes I pay, where I live, my personal number, how old I am, etc. You get real comfortable with that.
@@8is -It will ensure you only see the news that comfort you in your beliefs, and never the ones that may challenge them.
-It will be used to manipulate you in ways you don't even notice. For instance, linking you towards articles and headlines that show your candidate is winning by a large margin, to make you less motivated to go vote for said candidate.
-If a more authoritarian government ends up in place, it immediately provides them with a complete list of potential opponents and undesirables.
I may know your taxes, address, etc... But that's not important. Your personal convictions are what matter. They should be private, only known to you and those you directly converse with.
Those are not what government and private companies should have all-encompassing searchable databases of.
Germany be like: D A T E N S C H U T Z
The strangest thing is that the government still requires you to register your address in person every time you move in Germany. In Berlin, they even asked which floor my door was on and whether it was on the left or right of the stairs. I considered this a far larger and more worrying invasion of my privacy
Having to register is not the problem, but that they can legally sell your adress to companies!
dude they literally need that in case of
1. Emergencies
2. Mail
3. Gov. Information
4. If you are being a dumbo and need to be raided.
Your math at 5:10 is wrong by a factor of 100. The UK has roughly 60 million inhabitants, so 200 people are about 0.0003% of that.
nope everything is right with their math. yours is off by a factor of 100 btw
@@henrikheine6764 0,000003 is the rate, rate*100% is the percentage.
You are right, ((200x100"%")/60'000'000) = 0.0003%
@@jonibeYT yep i got it wrong sry.
I recalculated it and got your result , must have made some mistake before
Well, now I know never to answer anywhere in Germany for GeoGuessr. Thanks for the tip
I think there are some exceptions, in bigger cities.
Avoiding mainland China seems to be an easy choice too.
Just look for blurred houses. It's hard to find a street in Germany, that doesn't have at least one blurred house in Street View.
"There is not a secret service in existence that would collect photos so unabashedly"
Laughs in Chinese
Laughs in NSA
probably wrong
These US propaganda users forget that USA NSA was caught red handed spying in whole world. Did you foget how NSA hacked German Chancellor markel phone??
I know this is late, but at 2:50 why are you showing the Norwegian Parlament building in a video about Germany?
The important question isn't how they protect the data, but how they use those data.
Sam - it isn't either or it is both
I would say both...
you can't use data that isn't allowed to be collected, some data shouldn't be collected
The data isn’t collected in the first place.
moral of the story: if Google is determined to record your house, it's not because they want your relative to see your house. They're up to no good
One cool thing on the fact that photos are now renewed in Germany is the fact that you can easily see how cities change. Since these photos were taken in 2008 you can easily detect things like city growth, infrastructure change or even gentrification.
"It's not a glitch, it's Germany"
"it's not a glitch, it's germany"
little do they know, the entire country of germany was made on accident after a google engineer typed the wrong coordinates
The developers of google actually tried to make a pig.
Austria was a attempt to make it look better and switzerland is a glitch in the coordinates of france, germany and italy
That's so cool that Germany learned from their mistakes in the past
We try our best
Well thats a little oversimplified. Our government did NOT learn this lesson because they are still pushing hard for mass surveillance etc. but we are in the lucky position that we have a lot of smart and talented people that actually did learn this lesson in school and organized (like in the "Chaos Computer Club" or CCC or like epicenter.works in Austria and "none of your business" the Organization from Max Schrems the guy who singlehandedly made facebook basically illegal in Europe just to name a few examples) and are monitoring and fighting back, many times win, sometimes lose but never let the government or big tech have it their way without a fight. And they have a lot of public support, can mobilize huge protests, win in courts (many judges also seem to have learned this lesson and protect it with their rulings) and flood the inboxes of our elected representatives. So we are very lucky to have all these civil unions in place basically from the start (since data became important).
But data protection and that war (and even heavy political disputes) are VERY unpopular here in Germany seem to be the only real lessons that seem to have stuck around. There is still a decent amount of people who think a "strong leader" is favorable over complicated democratic processes, antisemitism and racism are still around (not dominant but still there) etc. So if we ACTUALLY learned our lesson things like this wouldn't occur...
The price of Freedom is Constant Vigilance.
Unlike the middle East. They are doing the same mistakes for a thousand years.
Good for Germany!
"It's not a glitch. It's Germany."
Sounds like some people watching WW2 on monitors
I remember quite well to this.Honestly, all this was based on a newspaper campaign. The newspaper managed to mobilize their readers and also handed out prints that could be used to get their house blurred. Finally the ministry jumped on the band waggon.
Well, i have to add that this was the biggest german news paper which is quite influencial. The owner is very successful in slowing down the growth of google in Germany. They also invented the link tax which finally got law. Without that news paper, maybe there would be street view in Germany.
fines to companies over 1 trillion dollars worth should be fined in percentage, ex 20% for itself adjusts
10% of renenue + 5% added per additional run. revenue is money incoming before taxes, which additionally reveals revenue amounts as fines are fractions from the raw revenue. Transparency for the win. 10,15,20,25,... % of reveneu is a shit ton of money in case of Google/Apple/Facebook/other big companies.
The case was with the old laws. The new data protection laws (DSGVO) allow larger fines based on the companies income (as far as I know).
People: Don’t secure their Wi-Fi Networks
Google: “Free Wi-Fi cool”
People O_o
If they care about their privacy they should put a password on their work then
@@user-anon they did
Collecting publicly visible wifi data is basically the same as making photographs, just on a different wavelength.
This was not about free wifi. Google collected the Networks IPs, which enables them to locate android phones even if location services are turned off, because google can match WiFi networks around you, that get recognized by your phone with their database of WLAN IPs.
@@MoodOfMidas this was a joke...
I see Google streetview cars often in Germany. They do take the pictures, but only for internal use. The information is used for example for Google maps navigation.
I did not even know there was a thing like that until this year. I always just used satellite view to see how a place looked.
It’s a little annoying when you’re driving or walking around to figure out where things are on the street but it is what it is.
just use any navigation programme, why do you need to know how the houses look like beforehand?
If you are there, are trying to find a business that works in an apartment, the business pin is located +/-100m to not go door to door because the street number is not located on the houses is an issue...
@ManuelB1b3r ok boomer.
@ManuelB1b3r no boomer = a person complaining about millennials being completely lost without modern technology, but then come running to them, when the phone takes a second too long to open
@ManuelB1b3r well that’s great
Summary: Google Earth's in-person street view is a violation of privacy.
yes sir
And nobody except us Germans seems to care :////
@@skorp5677 Americans are gladly able to give up privacy, human rights, and freedom for Government security and protection. They were voting for Biden. 🙃
But i like seeing my house in street view
I'm interested to learn how a photograph of my house is a violation of my privacy. Literally anyone can walk by and see the same thing so it's not really private.
Fun fact: way back when my father was a young man, he was spied on by the Stasi. We are an Eastern German family and he was always openly critical against the DDR and kind of rebellious. On lots of days, he noticed the telephone crackle.
Das gleiche haben wir doch momentan auch in der Corona Pandemie.
@@Philipp_-cp2xw Ehm... Nein.
Germany is an interesting place in general. In Ireland and the UK it's becoming increasingly rare to use cash, with most people tapping contactless cards and now Google/Apple pay on their mobiles. Where as Germany is almost completely cash dominant, visiting in early 2020 it was basically impossible to use a card in the majority of businesses, and most of those who did take card would only accept their own local cards.
I like using cash, seeing the physical stuff in your wallet get less and less and having to get new every so often really helps to keep track of your spending imo