Comments on: Google Street View – Some Highlights http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2007/06/01/google-street-view-some-highlights/ Randomness and Other Stuff for Your Viewing Pleasure Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:56:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Brad http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2007/06/01/google-street-view-some-highlights/comment-page-1/#comment-670 Brad Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:57:37 +0000 http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2007/06/01/google-street-view-some-highlights/#comment-670 Google's own employees staged a mock fight when the Google Van passed their headquarters. Check it out here: <a href="http://www.googlevan.com/Googler-Street-Fight/V98.htm">Google Mock Street Fight</a>. This shows Googlers (employees of Google) deliberately acknowledging the Google Van as it went by. Made me laugh, but also is it right to do this kind of thing? Google’s own employees staged a mock fight when the Google Van passed their headquarters. Check it out here: Google Mock Street Fight. This shows Googlers (employees of Google) deliberately acknowledging the Google Van as it went by. Made me laugh, but also is it right to do this kind of thing?

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]]> By: Malcolm Owen http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2007/06/01/google-street-view-some-highlights/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Malcolm Owen Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:46:57 +0000 http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2007/06/01/google-street-view-some-highlights/#comment-48 It definitely is a privacy issue, but I don't really think it's too much to worry about. I mean, every day there's a bunch of kids that walk past a road behind the house I live in. That road is high enough that they could possibly peer into my bedroom window whilst I'm asleep some mornings. What have I done to protect my privacy? I put some curtains up. Granted, going out and about and suddenly having your picture taken by an automatic camera isn't exactly on everyone's list of things they actually want to do unwillingly, but with the amount of street surveillance where I am there's practically no escape anyway. Indeed, the only real difference to me between the CCTV systems and what Google's doing is the fact that Google has only a snapshot, rather than a live version of events. Then again, if Google Maps had a live and highly zoomable satellite feed function like that of Under Siege 2, then everyone would be terrified. (Can't wait for that to happen, topless garden sunbathers beware!) It definitely is a privacy issue, but I don’t really think it’s too much to worry about.
I mean, every day there’s a bunch of kids that walk past a road behind the house I live in. That road is high enough that they could possibly peer into my bedroom window whilst I’m asleep some mornings. What have I done to protect my privacy? I put some curtains up.
Granted, going out and about and suddenly having your picture taken by an automatic camera isn’t exactly on everyone’s list of things they actually want to do unwillingly, but with the amount of street surveillance where I am there’s practically no escape anyway. Indeed, the only real difference to me between the CCTV systems and what Google’s doing is the fact that Google has only a snapshot, rather than a live version of events.
Then again, if Google Maps had a live and highly zoomable satellite feed function like that of Under Siege 2, then everyone would be terrified. (Can’t wait for that to happen, topless garden sunbathers beware!)

]]> By: Thomas http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2007/06/01/google-street-view-some-highlights/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Thomas Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:27:50 +0000 http://www.blatantlyrandom.com/2007/06/01/google-street-view-some-highlights/#comment-47 The pictures are interesting, but people seem to be concerned about the privacy issues about having their images posted associated with this project. I posted about what <a href="http://scissormonkey.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/google-maps-zoom-feature-renamed-to-address-privacy-concerns/">Google Maps Zoom Feature</a>might be called. The pictures are interesting, but people seem to be concerned about the privacy issues about having their images posted associated with this project.

I posted about what Google Maps Zoom Featuremight be called.

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