Google Street View hits privacy gridlock in GermanyGermany wants partially blurr

Germany wants partially blurred images removed from Google databases

- Germany and Google Inc. remained at odds today over how the company holds certain data used for its Street View map imagery.

Google was given a deadline of today to agree to 12 points regarding Street View in order to comply with Germany's privacy laws, which generally restrict photographs of people and property except in very public situations, such as a sporting event, without a person's consent.

The final sticking point concerns partially censored images where Google has blurred items such as license plates or peoples' faces, said Johannes Caspar, who heads the data protection agency for the Hamburg area.

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