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Post by Sweet Pea on Jun 28, 2008 11:47:17 GMT -5
anyone who knows me knows i love google. i love having all that information at my fingertips anytime i need it. but i just found out today that my entire neighborhood where i used to live is on google streets. house by house, everything. they've got pictures of people on there too! this seems to me to be an invasion of privacy. what if you don't want your house, your vehicles...or yourself...on the internet? i'm not looking forward to my town being put on google streets. how do you feel about it?
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Post by gaia on Jun 28, 2008 11:59:17 GMT -5
I think it's horrible... I'd be very interested in knowing how they've justified that kind of intrusion into people's lives. To see the roads/rooftops is one thing - I can understand people might want to check out the roads if they're going to be travelling an unknown route... but why does anybody (other than proper security staff) need such a close-up view? Honestly, this is enough to make the best of us feel paranoid.
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Post by Bodhi on Jun 28, 2008 13:09:36 GMT -5
I don't think its much of an invasion of privacy. These are all public streets. Its not like the google cameras are peering into your house. Its just taking a photo of a public area anyone has the right to walk through or take photos of. It's also photos taken who knows when, maybe years ago. Its not like its a 24 hour camera on everyones house where someone could keep track of you. The one photo of your house that was taken last year is not going to expose your privacy very much.
I have no problem with it, and am in fact disappointed they didn't photograph my city.
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Post by Sweet Pea on Jun 28, 2008 13:50:06 GMT -5
I don't think its much of an invasion of privacy. These are all public streets. Its not like the google cameras are peering into your house. Its just taking a photo of a public area anyone has the right to walk through or take photos of. It's also photos taken who knows when, maybe years ago. Its not like its a 24 hour camera on everyones house where someone could keep track of you. The one photo of your house that was taken last year is not going to expose your privacy very much. I have no problem with it, and am in fact disappointed they didn't photograph my city. don't worry, they'll get there eventually. maybe they'll put up a photo of you in your jammies getting your morning paper.
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Post by Sweet Pea on Jun 28, 2008 14:37:42 GMT -5
If that is what the general public can see, just imagine what the government can do. Someone told me that they can zoom in to a quarter on the street and see what year it was made. It is a bit scary. i think the potential for abuse is significant.
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Post by HybridMoment on Jun 28, 2008 17:37:52 GMT -5
I think there was already a problem with a Google street photo and a picture of a cat that could be seen through a second story window. Google was also sued for taking a picture of a house on a private road.
If I thought Google was coming to take a picture of where I live I might be motivated to plant a row of trees and put up another fence.
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Post by spark on Jun 28, 2008 21:32:06 GMT -5
The government has much better ways to spy on you. If the feds are coming after you a blurry picture from a moving van is the least of your worries.
This is just an effort by Google to take more business from mapquest. One more way that they can make their service better than their competitors.
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Post by Sweet Pea on Jun 29, 2008 17:19:11 GMT -5
The government has much better ways to spy on you. If the feds are coming after you a blurry picture from a moving van is the least of your worries. This is just an effort by Google to take more business from mapquest. One more way that they can make their service better than their competitors. blurry? um...no. the pics of the streets i've been looking at are anything but. when i said i think there's potential for abuse, i wasn't just thinking of the government. just judging by all the mulitudinous ways people have to discriminate and invade people's personal lives in inappropriate ways, i'm sure this will be one more tool to be used that way...and it will be available at everyone's fingertips for free. invasive to say the least.
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Post by Astroruss on Jun 30, 2008 18:31:22 GMT -5
What's all this crap about Google? What's the big deal? The government already knows where you live, who you are, and what you do. They know it from your liscense applications, your building permits, taxes and registrations, and from your social security numbers. So what? The government has known all this for the better part of a century.
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Post by Sweet Pea on Jun 30, 2008 20:33:52 GMT -5
What's all this crap about Google? What's the big deal? The government already knows where you live, who you are, and what you do. They know it from your liscense applications, your building permits, taxes and registrations, and from your social security numbers. So what? The government has known all this for the better part of a century. i think one of the biggest areas of abuse will be in the workplace...from what i've seen done with the internet at work so far...
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Post by pnoopiepnats on Jul 10, 2008 16:52:59 GMT -5
It's creepy.
Anyone could just look up and see what kind of house you live in etc.
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Post by Knox on Aug 4, 2008 10:23:21 GMT -5
great! now google has made it easier for a murderous stalker to find me, kill me. and rape the body.. ;D
thanks google streets!
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Post by Sweet Pea on Aug 4, 2008 11:23:39 GMT -5
great! now google has made it easier for a murderous stalker to find me, kill me. and rape the body.. ;D thanks google streets! wouldn't you rather enjoy the sex while you're still alive?
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Post by gaia on Aug 4, 2008 11:43:34 GMT -5
I've been thinking a bit more about this - and do you really think that Mr/Mrs Google has gone out there and put all these cameras in place?
We have CCTV on the streets already, and employed security people are watching those cameras the whole time.
What i'm trying to say is, do you think Google has put new cameras around - or are they just a (lawful?) hack into what the government have already put there?
If our privacy has already been invaded by CCTV for a long time anyway, don't people have the right to see what the security officers do?
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Post by Naptaq on Aug 4, 2008 11:55:30 GMT -5
I've been thinking a bit more about this - and do you really think that Mr/Mrs Google has gone out there and put all these cameras in place? They don't have any cameras that stream live. At least not that I know of. What you see on Google Streets is old footage. It's taken by a car. It has this camera on the roof that records 360. Then when the car comes in they download the data and make it look a little grainy and add Google logos and that's that. Here's one Google Street View car in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZwC5_qaVds
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