Attack on google street view
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John C wrote:
One of the most basic human rights is the right to do whatever the hell you want that doesn't harm others, i.e. taking pictures in a public place, looking at whatever you want to, going wherever you want to etc.
or walking naked around the city or even better X|
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Regardless of how this particular group of people handled matters, the issue itself is real. Personal privacy is being continually eroded on a wide variety of technology enabled fronts. Additionally, each new generation who grows up in this environment will find it less and less unusual since they have never known a time when it was different, allowing the problem to worsen without resistance due to their apathy. I understand that this is an international community, and that not all nations or cultures have a strong sense of individual rights. However, this continual erosion of privacy (and the apathy of technology savvy generations) is rampant even in America, where we're supposed to care about such things. The modern mantra of the Internet generation is that all information should be free, all intellectual property should have no rights or ownership, all data should be shared with everyone without restraint, and in fact there should be no restrictions of any kind for anyone. By the time they figure out the many personal vulnerabilities that come with such an environment, it will be too late. Data, once gathered, never really goes away. The fact that Google is large, powerful, and owns a camera does not make it more important than the rights and privacy of the individuals who populate the world community.
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
Christopher Duncan wrote:
The fact that Google is large, powerful, and owns a camera does not make it more important than the rights and privacy of the individuals who populate the world community.
I'm an individual. I like to take pictures in public places. I also like it when someone's already taken pictures of the streets in a place i'm traveling to, so i don't spend vast amounts of time clogging the streets trying to figure out where i am. Where are my rights? Sorry, i'm with John C on this one. Taking pictures of public places has been kosher for decades, the Internet changes nothing. We have cameras taking pictures of people in public in real time on the taxpayer's dime; IMHO, that's a whole lot more concerning.
The sig has been drinking...
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Ok, I want you to do this for me: Go and buy yourself a street map. Pick any residential street on that map and make a visit. Take a camera. Photograph each and every residence on that street in detail. If you return home alive, upload those images to your own web space with explicit details on whereabouts of the street you visited, time of day and so forth. Publicise the fact you have done this. Come back and tell me what happens. Either that, or get yourself a clue before making ludicrous analogies that bear no relation to the subject at hand.
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?
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Would you like to? :) You have my permission, in case you need it, which I doubt.. edit: ok, I checked, you (officially anyway, who actually ask?) need permission to take a picture of a human, but you can take a picture of most anything else without permission It's vague around pictures of landscapes with some people in it but that sounds exactly like what google is doing edit2: in the netherlands - laws will be different elsewhere.
modified on Friday, April 3, 2009 2:25 PM
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I could do that without any problem. Of course I have a life to live and wasting even a small part of it on someone who just does not want to admit he's wrong just does not happen to be on my list of todo items.
kenrentz wrote:
I could do that without any problem.
Very unlikely. You'll be visited by the boys in blue at the behest of one of the residents. If you tried that on the Outlaw's street you'll be visited by the undertaker.
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Personally, I'd have been thrilled no end if I was ever featured in a Google street view scene :-)
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkI don't think the world is ready for an image of you wearing nothing but a trench coat and a smile, Nish... ;P
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I don't think the world is ready for an image of you wearing nothing but a trench coat and a smile, Nish... ;P
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
I don't think the world is ready for an image of you wearing nothing but a trench coat and a smile, Nish...
Well I'll also be wearing my Visual C++ cap - so maybe that'll help some. :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link -
Regardless of how this particular group of people handled matters, the issue itself is real. Personal privacy is being continually eroded on a wide variety of technology enabled fronts. Additionally, each new generation who grows up in this environment will find it less and less unusual since they have never known a time when it was different, allowing the problem to worsen without resistance due to their apathy. I understand that this is an international community, and that not all nations or cultures have a strong sense of individual rights. However, this continual erosion of privacy (and the apathy of technology savvy generations) is rampant even in America, where we're supposed to care about such things. The modern mantra of the Internet generation is that all information should be free, all intellectual property should have no rights or ownership, all data should be shared with everyone without restraint, and in fact there should be no restrictions of any kind for anyone. By the time they figure out the many personal vulnerabilities that come with such an environment, it will be too late. Data, once gathered, never really goes away. The fact that Google is large, powerful, and owns a camera does not make it more important than the rights and privacy of the individuals who populate the world community.
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
Well said, Christopher! :-D You got my vote. Erm... what were you running for? :-O
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
modified on Friday, April 3, 2009 6:29 PM
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Well said, Christopher! :-D You got my vote. Erm... what were you running for? :-O
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
modified on Friday, April 3, 2009 6:29 PM
Roger Wright wrote:
Erm... what were you running for?
Just running, man, just running. Given the life I lead, it's always a good idea to keep the sneakers warmed up. :-D
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
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So, let's take this to an extreme just for illustrative purposes. According to you, and you'd supposedly be fine with this, if I knew where you lived I could: Turn up every day for a year. Take photos of your house from every angle visible from a public highway or footpath. Publish those photos on the Internet, along with the address. And I have the right to do this? My right to take photos from a public space, publish those photos however I see fit and potentially to profit from them supersedes your rights?
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?
Yes, at least here in Finland you could do just that. The right of privacy applies only to people, not to buildings, pets or plants. As long as the residents of the buildings aren't visible and you took the pictures from a public place, there's no rights being violated. Btw. Google started shooting Finnish street views this week without any protests against them.