Negative German sentiment towards Google causes the company to back down

This week, Google has been busy with its usual business of mapping the country from top to bottom via its street view. Although nearly 20 cities within Germany have been thoroughly mapped by the company, Google will cease collective further data in Germany. There appears to be no information released (press releases, statements, etc.) about why they have stopped, but the article makes it clear that there has been at least 250,000 requests made by German cities to blur their streets and homes which could be the reason why.

Google has been playing nice lately since they've been caught stealing information from local Wi-Fi signals. They do give people the option of being excluded from Google's street view. They also have a policy now, like I said before,  where they will blur your home upon request.

If you thought this was the first time Google has been in trouble with a country, you couldn't be more wrong. Last March, they were fined $ 142,000 in France for violating privacy laws there. That is a fairly reasonable punishment for the corporation who has been completely from countries such as China.


But I'm sure China is just acting in the interests of their citizens. I mean, after all, Google has always boasted positive reasons for their systematic mapping of basically every inch on the planet (give or take a few inches).

"Our business priority is to use our Google cars to collect data such as street names and road signs to improve our basic maps for our basic maps for our users in a similar way that other mapping companies do," a spokesperson said.

I hope they're not referring to companies such as OnStar and TomTom, because I'm pretty sure none of those business are driving cars all over the world mapping the world. I'm not insinuating that Google is up to no good and has evil intent, but they certainly have the means for diabolic operations.

This is just a postulation, but there are people out there who really do think that Google is poised to take over the world. Just because it's actually quite interesting to hear their argument, I've posted one of the many videos you can find via Google ironically enough, that ponder this strange scenario: