Google Stree View privacy scare
Street View is Google’s latest digital map innovation. It allows users to see city streets from a first-person perspective. No doubt that Street View is a useful feature, however, it raises some privacy concerns.
Here is a report from theage.com.au:
In San Francisco, there is a man picking his nose on a street corner. At Stanford University, there are a couple coeds sunbathing in bikinis. In Miami, there is a group of protesters carrying signs outside an abortion clinic. In other cities, you can see men entering adult book stores or leaving strip clubs.
Some people think Google has gone a bit overboard this time.
“Everyone expects a certain level of anonymity as they move about their daily lives,” said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group devoted to protecting people’s rights on the Internet.
Some others think differently.
Privacy experts believe these kinds of issues are bound to arise as technology makes it increasingly easy to share pictures and video on the Internet, pitting the rights of free expression against the rights to personal privacy.
“What you have to do is balance out the perception against the reality and I think in this case, the perception is much scarier than the reality,” said Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People For Internet Responsibility, a policy group.
What do you think?
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Comment by Geo-Trotter — June 3, 2007 @ 6:57 am
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