This is now a familiar story: European privacy concerns and complaints against Google Street View. From angry mobs to European regulators, Google is confronting many more objections as it tries to visually map The Continent than it did in the US.

This installment involves German “data protection regulators” in Hamburg who object to the way that Google is collecting images and the perceived lack of protection for personal privacy. Sanctions are threatened if Google doesn’t comply with regulators’ requests. As the New York Times reports:

[Data protection regulator Johannes] Caspar said during an interview that Google and the German data protection officials were at odds on 12 points involving the operation of Street View. German privacy law forbids dissemination of photos of people or their property without their consent.

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