In Germany, where Google famously lost, the law is also simple: From eyelevel, you can photograph everything. Above eyelevel, you need permission, or it has to be only imagery that could have been seen from eye level, too.

One reason for this is that people might build a 2m tall fence around their frontyard and walk around naked, but Google with a 3m tall StreetView camera could obviously photograph that.

Google ignored the law, and hoped it would be easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission, but, as Germans are, everyone asking for forgiveness will be punished even harder to prevent such business policies.