[LINK] Google denies Street View has privacy issues

[Jan Whitaker]

At 07:36 AM 6/06/2007, Antony Barry wrote:
>Google denies Street View has privacy issues

I did an interview for Perth radio on this yesterday. At this point, 
I tend to agree that this is a tempest in a teapot. It's far lower on 
the continuum of privacy threatening than the street surveillance 
cameras recording our every move in public spaces. At least this way 
we can partially check what was snapped and request it be removed. I 
think this thing is more about embarrassment, like 'candid camera' or 
backgrounds in any type of photo taken in public spaces.

The last question was something like "Since Australians are usually 
an uninhibited lot, when they come to do Australia, should people be 
advised in advance so they can line up in the streets in their boarders?"

I suggested if anyone had in mind to drop their daks, they needed to 
remember the pictures were going out on the net and a lot of people 
would see them. I don't think the interviewer expected that answer.


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