Microsoft's Streetside better accepted than Google's Street View

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Microsoft's Streetside better accepted than Google's Street View

 

Microsoft’s Streetside service, which allows users to see virtual views of streets and houses, in a similar way to Google’s Street View is only generating a fraction of the opposition.

This time last year, 244 000 Germans had their homes Demanded be removed from the Street View service. But Microsoft has received fewer than 90.000 search requests so far. It plans to launch the service throughout Europe, including Germany, by the end of the year.

In "Compared with other services, the acceptance of our service is great," Microsoft spokeswoman Dorothee Ritz told the Süddeutsche Zeitung a statement, citing a "growing appreciation for geo-data services."

Another explanation might be that Streetside has generated far less of a buzz than when it did Street View expanded its service to Germany last year. Or that Microsoft has been more proactive in promising to protect Germans' privacy.

Earlier this year it promised to make it easy for people to request their homes and property be blurred out online. It also delayed the introduction of the service.

In 2010, Deutsch government and media figures expressed concern that Street View was a major infringement on people's privacy rights.

Subsequently it emerged that Google had been inadvertently been sucking up personal data via wireless Internet networks on its Street View expeditions - a violation of law Deutsch.

Eventually Google said it was no longer sending its camera cars out in Germany, although the company left open the Possibility that it would return in the future.

Microsoft has been taking pictures on Deutsch roads since May of this year and this month is in several cities, including Berlin and Dusseldorf, the Sueddeutsche reported.

 

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