For residents and tourists alike, Google Maps Street View is an exceptionally useful navigational tool. However, not every country has welcomed Google’s iconic Street View cars to their streets. One of these longtime holdouts, Germany, has only recently begun to change its tune after more than a decade of resistance. But why? Germans Place High Value on Privacy The European Union has some of the world’s strictest regulations and requirements concerning data protection, as evidenced by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and record-breaking fines levied against tech companies that mishandle data. Even in the context of a privacy-obsessed EU,...