Following a campaign to eliminate Google Street View in Japan, the company has decided to return to the country and redo its 360 degree street-level imagery…at a new camera angle. Responding to complaints that some Japanese Street View imagery allows anyone to see into private residential backyards, Google says it will continue mapping Japan but place its Street View car cameras 40 centimeters lower as to ensure it only captures public spaces.
Not everyone is happy with this though. Yasuhiko Tajima, a constitutional law professor at Sophia University in Tokyo told Reuters, “They are just trying to get through at the technological level … The question is, can we allow for them to shoot (images) unselectively?”
Suck it up and move on people. Suck it up and move on.