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“Google HomeView” arrives in Germany

Many Germans have objected strenuously to Google’s Street View service saying that it is an improper invasion of their privacy.

Now there’s a delightful German video satirizing (opens in new tab) Street View. Rather than documenting the ubiquitous camera cars that invade villages snapping photos in all directions for that service, it chronicles a supposed Google team in its effort to photograph "every room in every house in Germany" as part of a new service called "Google HomeView."

It doesn’t matter if you don’t sprechen ein bisschen Deutsch; the  3 minute video embedded below is  hilarious.  And, you might learn a foreign word or two. "Sex" is the same in both languages by the way. So is Google.

Just don’t show this to Eric, Larry and Sergey (opens in new tab).  They might get some dangerous ideas.

 

John M. Simpson

John M. Simpson

John M. Simpson is an American consumer rights advocate and former journalist. Since 2005, he has worked for Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan nonprofit public interest group, as the lead researcher on Inside Google, the group's effort to educate the public about Google's dominance over the internet and the need for greater online privacy.

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