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by belter 1370 days ago
>not to be a google apologist, but they only ever record public areas. Do you hold tourists that take photos to the same standard?

Tourist don't do the same thing. Why do you think there is almost no Google Street View in Germany?

> whatever is in internal google is irrelevant, since the data is not exposed publicly...

GDPR -> "What information must be given to individuals whose data is collected?"

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

> how did google get the private address of the owner of a public business? I don't quite understand the claim to the wrong doing.

Google got it because some owners have their company registered to their own private address. It's the extra step of publicly exposing that info and pressuring you to take ownership of it otherwise it will be shown on Google Map an offer that currently is 98% of the market. Why do you think you have the option of blurring the view of your house in Google Maps?