German court calls Google’s aerial imagery ‘spying’, Google will appeal

A German court has told Google it cannot keep showing people’s homes from above without their permission. The Frankfurt Regional Court ruled on Tuesday that the aerial and satellite views on Google Earth and Google Maps break Germany’s strict privacy laws. It went further, and called the practice “spying”.

A man in Frankfurt brought the case. German courts and media have withheld his name under the country’s privacy rules, as Deutsche Welle reported. He had already forced Google Street View…