TBH you can blame that on Germany alienating Google Maps<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigaom.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;05&#x2F;googles-cars-return-to-german-roads-but-not-for-street-view&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigaom.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;05&#x2F;googles-cars-return-to-german-...</a><p>&quot;Google started automatically blurring faces and number plates, it was forced to give Germans the option of having their houses blurred out as well – something hundreds of thousands of people took the firm up on.<p>However, this was a costly business, with Google needing to hire temporary workers to manually blur out selected buildings. It also didn’t stop people trying to sue the U.S. company over alleged privacy infringement. So, in 2011, Google said it was giving up on Street View in Germany – the pre-existing images remain online, but they haven’t been updated in three years.&quot;