Google Street View invades the UK and the World
March 22nd, 2009
Looks like Google is at it again! Google is working on Google Street View in the UK and it’s getting quite the reaction.
Google Street View is Google Maps but up close, street level!
Many are seeing Google Street View as an invasion on privacy but Google defends itself and as gone as far as making videos to assure people that they can be removed from any Google Street View product through a process.There’s always a fine line between technolgy advancement and intrusion on privacy when it comes to advancements in security or navigational tools that help the users of the product but only time will tell if Google Maps Street View will be a success.
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Tags: google, google maps, google street view, gps, street view
[..YouTube..] How many more people have2b subjected to violence b4 people realise things like StreetView can put people’s lives in danger!? How can we ask for an image to be removed if we don’t actually KNOW we have been photographed and broadcast on StreetView?
[..YouTube..] So, Gazman, how long have you worked for Google?
[..YouTube..] I don’t, believe it or not, I just don’t understand all the panic over nothing.
[..YouTube..] Nonsense. And you know it.
[..YouTube..] I KNOW your talking nonsense.
[..YouTube..] If it can be proved that a person used your streetvideo to commit a crime then you lay yourselves open to be taken to court for compensation as youeffectively was an ”accessorey before the fact.”Your answer I await with intersest + ”Your DutyOf Care ” to the public surely comes to to question
[..YouTube..] Unlikely….How can someone prove that SV was used to commit a crime? Wasn’t most of this filmed over a year ago? So are you saying that if someone uploads a video (which may show similar content to SV) which someone else could ‘somehow??’ use to commit a crime, the person who uploads that video is an accessory to that crime?!!
[..YouTube..] If someone uses an Ordnance Survey map to plan a robbery, are OS then an accessory to the crime too? Don’t be stupid.
[..YouTube..] I expect that people who object to this for daft reasons like it could be used to aid criminals, are the same sort of twit that thinks that 911 was an inside job and diana was murdered!
[..YouTube..] You have no choice as to whether your house photo is published, there is no copyright on buildings, you cannot do anything about somebody uploading a picture which contains your house, so long as the picture was taken from a PUBLIC place (ie the street!)
[..YouTube..] You are entitled to privacy IN your own property. You can’t expect privacy in your front garden for instance, as it’s viewable from the street. If you can be seen IN your property on SV, then you can be seen from the view in the street, simple? Would you walk around your house naked if your window can be seen from the street?
[..YouTube..] Oh and with the argument on walking roung my living room naked on view of the street if wished to do that I would because its “my choice” and I CHOOSE to do it if any one see’s me Im not bothered . Im in my Home.
[..YouTube..] Any photos YOU take yourself of your property are your copyright, the actual facade of your house is NOT your copyright, so I CAN come to your house and take photos of it myself WITHOUT breach of copyright. You talk BOLLOCKS!
[..YouTube..] Read my above comment! This taken from Uk photographers rights guide 2009: “Private Property- Owners of private property do not normally have the right to prevent someone from taking photographs of their property from a public place such as a public highway.” A la Street View!Yes you own the copyright to your own photos, but I can photograph your house from the street and I’ll own the copyright to those pictures. Accept it!!Stop grasping at straws……..
[..YouTube..] Yes you CAN choose to walk around your living room naked in view of the street, but would you expect to sue anyone who sees you from the street for breach of your privacy and human rights? No you are likely to be arrested yourself for indecency. How the table has turned.
[..YouTube..] So, your not bothered if someone were to see you walking naked around your living room, but your are concerned if someone can see your street on ‘Street View’? How bizarre!
[..YouTube..] but isn’t quite a big difference? How many people walk around the streets naked?
[..YouTube..] Actually, I may have taken it out of context. Forget what I said.
[..YouTube..] happy day’s i did confront him the other day in my street -this is the amusing thinghe was more than willing to help and provide the following : GOOGLE head office address to have all photos removed if you want that done GOOGLE ; Belgrave House 76Buckingham palace Road , London SW1W 9TQ there contact Number is 02073462128 the more people complain the more likely they are to stop doing it.
[..YouTube..] This comment shows a total disregard for, and inability to respect, people’s feelings about their own need for privacy to be respected. Yes, you might be ‘legally’ entitled to take such photographs, but you are missing the point entirely about what it means in terms of people’s feelings. Isn’t this is what makes us human?
[..YouTube..] Yes I am legally entitled to take photographs in a PUBLIC street, do you want to make it illegal? Are you part of the do-gooder, blue rinse, PC brigade that is trying to stop us doing everything, well are you?I live in a tourist city where hundreds of houses are photographed everyday by tourists, shall we confront them in the street and accuse them of breaching our rights to privacy???? Well shall we?Idiot…….
[..YouTube..] you still havent answered the question do you work for google gaz? im bored now with this yawn…
[..YouTube..] Quite! Pretty abusive actually, wouldn’t you say? Then, as you point out . . .
[..YouTube..] I did answer it earlier, but just once more, no I don’t work for google, I just don’t see what all the fuss is for, it is after all basically just a 3D map, using images of the street isn’t it?I’m also very bored of this too….I hope you managed to remove your house off streetview pcsingsnap…….
[..YouTube..] Actualy, I like street view. It’s great fun taking a ‘virtual drive’ from one place to another. Seriously, I use it to hone my knowledge of architecture and streetscape. I didn’t realise this arguament was taking place here. I thought it was the province of the Daily Mail ex-colonels and their frightfully posh wives!
[..YouTube..] Helpful to crime