Google’s privacy-conscious initiatives are often born in Germany. Heeding the objections to Street View, which rained down from national authorities and wary Germans, Google introduced an opt-out feature that allowed people to officially request that their homes be blurred out — nearly 250,000 applications were submitted. Google also hatched an engineering team devoted to privacy protection in Munich. The group has devised privacy tools for Google’s Chrome Web browser, and created Google Dashboard, a blatant nod toward transparency that “summarizes the data associated with each product you use.”
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Search History: Google and Germany, Part 3
Posted by: David Vranicar July 14, 2011 05:00 AMGoogle’s privacy-conscious initiatives are often born in Germany. Heeding the objections to Street View, which rained down from national authorities and wary Germans, Google introduced an opt-out feature that allowed people to officially request that their homes be blurred out — nearly 250,000 applications were submitted. Google also hatched an engineering team devoted to privacy protection in Munich. The group has devised privacy tools for Google’s Chrome Web browser, and created Google Dashboard, a blatant nod toward transparency that “summarizes the data associated with each product you use.”