Judgment: Court prohibits images of property on Google Maps
A father of a family from Frankfurt wants the plot of land of his residential home not to be visible on Google Earth or Google Maps - and is taking legal action. What does the court have to say about it?
A Frankfurt am Main court has ruled that aerial images of a property in Germany cannot be published on Google Earth or Google Maps if the owner objects. The case was brought by a family father who owns a residential house in Frankfurt and had previously successfully requested that images of his house be blurred on Google Street View and Apple Look Around.
The court found that Google's aerial images, which were obtained secretly, invaded the private space of the property owner and could not be justified by the right to information. The ruling is not yet final.
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