Search results
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.
- Regions Unknown
- Totalitarian Traumas
- Nie Wieder
- Informational Self-Determination
- Missing The Train
- “A Million-Fold Violation”
- Blurry Street
It is an image reminiscent of those late-19th-century maps of Africa with the center of the continent left empty, marked “Regions Unknown.” Germany and Austria are among the world’s most advanced economies, so why do Google’s camera cars find those countries as inaccessible and/or inhospitable as European explorers found Africa’s interior? The reas...
While public nudity is a big no-no in the United States, for example, Germany has a long tradition of what is known as FKK — short for Freikörperkultur, or “free body culture.” Certain beaches and areas of city parks are dedicated to nude sunbathing, and even Nacktwanderung(“nude rambling”) is a thing. On the other hand, Germans are extremely posse...
Both regimes wanted total control over their citizens. In the Nazi years, the state’s blunt instrument was called the Gestapo (short for Geheime Staatspolizei, or “secret state police”). In East Germany, it was the Stasi (short for Staatssicherheit, or “state security”). In both systems, citizens effectively ceased to have a right to privacy, and c...
Over the decades, Germany broadened and deepened its definition of privacy. 1. In 1970, the German state of Hesse passed the first data protection law in the world. 2. In 1979, West Germany laid the foundation for the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz(BDSG), or Federal Data Protection Act, the main aim of which was to protect the inviolability of personal, p...
Foreign firms operating in Germany have to adjust to some of the strictest privacy laws in the world. But Nie wiederis difficult to maintain in a world that increasingly mines and monetises data. As a result, the inexorable advance of digitization is viewed with a mixture of fatalism and misgiving. Example one: Germany’s split personality when it c...
Case in point: Google Street View’s German debacle. Launched in the U.S. in 2007, Google Street View’s mapping of interactive roadside panoramas has since expanded to cover most of the world. In June 2012, it had mapped 5 million miles of roads in 39 countries; by its 10th anniversary in May 2017, the total was 10 million miles in 83 countries. Str...
Google automatically blurs faces and vehicle license plates and, upon request, the fronts of houses. Fully 3% of households in the relevant areas requested their houses to be blurred. Faced with that unprecedentedly high level of resistance, Google in 2011 published the data already collected, but left it at that. Following the revelation in May 20...
Jul 25, 2023 · Google Street View is back in Germany after 10+ year halt. By Manuel Vonau. Updated Jul 25, 2023. The company left Street View footage languishing for more than a decade. Read update....
- Google Editor
The satellite and map view shows Berlin, largest city and the national capital of Germany. Berlin is located in northeastern Germany, surrounded by the Federal State of Brandenburg, the city center lies along the river Spree. Berlin itself is also one of the 16 Federal States of Germany.
Learn how to navigate and use Street View. Explore the world without leaving your couch and create and add your own images into Google Maps.
People also ask
Where is Berlin located?
Where is Messe Berlin located?
Why are Germans suspicious of Google Street View?
Which German cities have been mapped?
While it’s hard to find an example of Google Maps being inaccurate, there are some discrepancies between the map and Street View images that we found quite interesting. It’s really compelling to see how the city changed within a decade – whether you’ve actually witnessed it or not.
Berlin is an excellent place to travel in Germany because it offers the most informative and exciting glimpse into the culture and heritage of the country. Open full screen to view more This map ...
