Google, Microsoft and Nokia are concerned about privacy

Google, Microsoft, Nokia and other big companies are collaborating in Germany in designed to allow citizens to hide mapping services

Number of large companies in technology are collaborating to maintain the privacy of German citizens. Google, Microsoft, Nokia and Deutsche Telekom are among the companies set up by the union as "the union of self-regulation in IT" whose job, among other things, allow the Germans - their state privacy laws tougher, delete themselves from a series of mapping services.

Did not mean it documented? Can be removed

German citizen so he could go to the union launched and delete the identifying marks such as his home, or his license plate or himself from services such as Google Street View Estate-Nokia Maps. More citizens can check through the website if their homes were taken and complain through the records without authorization for those services. Participating in union promising to examine these complaints and cover images reveal what the people in the photo do not want to be exposed.

Yes, you probably want to remove it from Google Street View

"Hmstor equity of companies is the right way to deal with the sensitivity of citizens and the German government issue," said Dieter Kemp, president of the Association of German IT Bitkom. He said the companies do not launch mapping services in Germany in reaction to a country's privacy problems Too bad sector and innovation and these common services stopped arriving in Germany. "