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(FILES) - Cars equiped with special cameras, used to photograph whole streets, can be seen on the Google street view stand at the world's biggest high-tech fair, the CeBIT on March 3, 2010 in the northern German city of Hanover. Internet giant Google will allow Germans to opt-out of its disputed Street View navigation service ahead of its launch in the country in 2010, the company said on August 10, 2010.   AFP PHOTO DANIEL MIHAILESCU (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images)(Photo Credit should Read /AFP/Getty Images)
(FILES) – Cars equiped with special cameras, used to photograph whole streets, can be seen on the Google street view stand at the world’s biggest high-tech fair, the CeBIT on March 3, 2010 in the northern German city of Hanover. Internet giant Google will allow Germans to opt-out of its disputed Street View navigation service ahead of its launch in the country in 2010, the company said on August 10, 2010. AFP PHOTO DANIEL MIHAILESCU (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images)(Photo Credit should Read /AFP/Getty Images)
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Photo: Google Street View vehicles on display at high-tech fair CeBit in March 2010 in Hanover, Germany. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images)