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 Germany: Lex Google Street View?

The justice ministers of Germany's 16 states have agreed to support a legal initiative to extend laws protecting Germans' right to privacy to cover use of their own image and that of their homes in online street panoramas. The proposed German law is directly aimed at services like Google Street View and would amend Germany's Federal Data Protection Act to make it illegal to publish databases of street images linked to their geographic coordinates without first blurring faces and car registration plates in the images. It would also make it illegal to store the raw, unblurred image data for more than a month after first publication.

 

For more information see: Sayer, German Regulators Welcome Street Panorama Privacy Law Draft

 

 

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