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Google Street View images in Germany are getting first update in over a decade.

Privacy advocates balked at the initial rollout in 2011, causing Google to halt image collection, which will now be refreshed for the first time starting June 22nd. The German government is involved this time to ensure sufficient use of the blur brush.

On the left the current picture on Street View (taken in June 2008), on the right the actual Munich Google office in Erika-Mann-Straße.
On the left the current picture on Street View (taken in June 2008), on the right the actual Munich Google office in Erika-Mann-Straße.
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