According to reports in the German media, several houses in the Bergerhausen neighbourhood of Essen, Western Germany were hit with eggs. All of the targeted houses are ones that were blurred out in Street View.
The vandals were choosing their targets based on their opting out of Street View. They taped notes to the mailboxes of the houses saying 'Google's cool.'
Google Street View launched in Germany earlier this month following much controversy over its privacy implications - to which Google responded by taking the unprecedented step of allowing German households to opt out of their homes being visible on the service.
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| A blurred out residence in Germany. |
Those houses that opted out - around 244,000, or just under 3% of all German residences - are blurred out in the online images.
In my opinion the people who opted out would of done so out of fear of privacy invasion perhaps because they aren't aware of technological advances in culture and lifestyle. But I cant think of a justification for vandalising someones house on the basis that they opted out of a service which has little practical applications.
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