I certainly would not be able to stop and stare at people's properties the way google street view would allow me. But then, I'm not a burgler. Combined with the satellite images of google earth, it's providing a lot of information.
I imagine the right to take photographs in public was not envisioned with a visual database of private properties in mind. One or two people (scattered) taking the occasional photograph is a little bit different. Remind me, what use of google street view is there? On 3/4/2009, "Rob Myers" <[email protected]> wrote: >marc garrett wrote: >> Jacobs claims residents were worried >> that the photographs were an invasion of their privacy > >Because people who walk down the street usually have to avert their eyes >or something? ;-) > >The right to take photographs in public was won over a century ago. >Google are just exercising that right. The only thing I find surprising >is that nobody crowdsourced this first. > >- Rob. > > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
