Wasn't Germany the original country that forced google maps to censor all houses unless they opt-IN? And faces, and driving plates.
I think they are quite privacy conscious, as a country.
Wasn't Germany the original country that forced google maps to censor all houses unless they opt-IN? And faces, and driving plates.
I think they are quite privacy conscious, as a country.
Google Streetview isn't opt-in, it's opt-out. But it was used so much that Google simply gave up for a while.
Blurring faces (and I assume license plates) was a thing before they started serving imagery for Germany
And quite averse/backwater (choose your version) on using debit/credit cards. Which is mindblowing from my Easter European perspective. I didn't use cash in a decade.
Unfortunately that's much less the case since COVID. Not looking forward to have more and more placed that only take panopticon-payments.
That has pretty much changed now. I rarely use cash in Berlin. About 2-3 years already...
Berlin is very different from the rest of Germany.
But not how you think, in this instance. I think Berlin has more places of questionable legality which require cash for presumably tax avoidance reasons.
germany had bank transfers as the norm when the US still fiddled around with paper cheques.