If you check out their address Dienerstraße 12, Munich, you'll be greeted by this censored image: Street View images of Germany's 20 largest cities, including Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich, are live in Google Maps, Google announced yesterday.
Some properties that were supposed to be censored appear unblurred, PCWorld reported. Germany (Again) When images of Oberstaufen, Germany, went live on Google Maps Street View this week, iPad and iPhone users saw more than they were supposed to.
It's hard to trust a system that's widely censored. By the way, Google does NOT do this type of disclosure in France and Germany to my knowledge, despite what I've seen the company say, such as cofounder
Google has censored sites in Germany and France in the past. Since the news broke late Tuesday that Google China would be censored, lots of press and blog attention has been published. In addition, CNET News.com has found that contrary to Google...
At least if the results are censored, there's disclosure of this. Content Censored In Accordance With National Laws. A growing number of visitors from China to the uncensored Web address www.google.com will now be redirected to the self-censored...
Interestingly, no one has covered yet whether searches at the MSN search engine are censored. But the exact type of censorship or content censored is also an issue. Revisiting Google Censorship In Germany mentions Yahoo search censorship briefly...
The second is from a censored Germany company also seeking material to be removed. Gary passed along three new complaints at Chilling Effects asking Google to pull material because of defamation concerns.
Chances are, those in Germany going to non-German editions of these search engines will still be able to access the "censored" material, however, just as they can now. Google Blogoscoped has an interesting item, German Search Engines Self...
Google Blogoscope updates sites previously identified as censored by Google in Germany and France in its I went to Yahoo Germany and Yahoo France and compared to the main Yahoo site, doing some spot checking of how they handle domains where Google...
