It will be interesting to see if that remains. I suspect that a lot of the privacy objections around Google Street View are objections to google, not objections to street view.
The few I randomly clicked on seemed to be either tests without outside view or with mostly-blurred faces and license plates (some unblurred, I suspect where the face-detection failed), so there are efforts to conform with privacy demands here.
Google Street view also blurs faces and license plates. What killed it in Germany was that some people wanted to be able to have their houses blurred out, and processing these requests took lots of manual work.
I vaguely remember websites dedicated to providing HD images of all the buildings that are blurred in Google Streetview, as another instance of the Streisand Effect.
Why? Google Streetview stopped because public backlash, not because there's any law against it (it's actually even explicitly allowed through Panoramafreiheit)
Actually, Panoramafreiheit does NOT apply to Streetview, because the cameras were not at eye level, and could look into gardens, over fences and hedges.
This was tried in court, and Google failed.
Panoramafreiheit only applies at eye level (I’ve talked with a few people studying law about this due to the current drone debate)
