{"id":1183,"date":"2011-04-02T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2011-04-04T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T20:25:36","slug":"google-indoors-featured-on-german-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Google Indoors<\/em> featured on German TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germans woke up yesterday to a\u00a0headline story on\u00a0Das Erste's\u00a0TV Morning Show\u00a0announcing a\u00a0spiffy new Internet service – Google\u00a0indoors<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

A spokesman said Google was extending its Street View offering\u00a0so Internet users\u00a0could finally see inside\u00a0peoples’ homes.\u00a0 Indeed,\u00a0Google indoors<\/em> personnel were\u00a0already knocking on doors, patiently explaining that\u00a0if\u00a0people\u00a0had not already gone through\u00a0the opt-out process,\u00a0they had\u00a0“opted in”…<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

… so the technicians needed to get on with their work:<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

Google's deep concern about peoples’ privacy had let it to introduce features such as automated blurring of faces…<\/p>\n

\"Automated
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\n… and the business model of the scheme was devilishly simple: the contents of peoples’ houses served as product placements charged to advertisers, with 1\/10 of a cent per automatically recognized brand name going to the residents themselves.\u00a0 As shown below, people can choose to obfuscate products worth more than 5,000 Euros\u00a0if concerned about\u00a0attracting thieves – an example of the\u00a0advanced privacy options and levels the service makes possible.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

Check out the video<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Navigation features within houses are amazing!\u00a0 From the amount of effort and wit put into it by a major TV show, I'd wager that\u00a0even if Google's troubles with Germany\u00a0around Street View are over, its problems with Germans around privacy may not be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Frankly,\u00a0Das Erste<\/a>\u00a0(meaning “The First”) has to be congratulated on one of the best crafted April Fools you will have witnessed.\u00a0\u00a0I don't have the command of German language or politics (!) to understand all the subtleties, but friends say the piece\u00a0is teeming with irony.\u00a0 And given Eric Schmidt's policy <\/a>of getting as close to “creepy” as possible,\u00a0who wouldn't find the\u00a0video\u00a0at least partly\u00a0believable<\/a>?<\/p>\n

[Thanks to Kai Rannenberg for the heads up.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check it out! The navigation features within peoples’ houses are amazing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,71,2,47,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}