[LINK] APF Policy re Google StreetView

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Roger, and the APF, sensibly (and not boringly) write:

Ref: http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/StreetView.html

> Specific concerns, and design-features and business processes that
> Google has adopted in order to address them, include the following:
> 
> private locations – addressed by only driving and capturing images on
> public roads (with some errors arising, e.g. from mistakes in existing
> map databases, and human error) 
>
> sensitive locations – addressed by defining categories of sensitive
> location, identifying instances of each category, and avoiding them
> (with some errors arising) 

And, a teaching colleague writes: (I don't know if this remains an issue)

"See Google streetview at Haileybury (College) Berwick campus. The car
came 200 metres inside school property and photographed children (and
most likely drove the wrong way on a one way internal road)."

Ref: http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/itapps/2008-August/003840.html

This would appear, at first glance, to be quite some error arising ..

Thanks muchly for your work here, Roger. We shall all be the better for
your efforts, no doubt. By the way, have you had half a chance to review
the ALRC privacy report released yesterday? They are keen for legislative
action, so they claim.  Imho, despite this fine new 2000+ page report, one
might doubt they really have a handle on advertiser's e-tricks. Thus there
would be some fertile e-privacy grounds here that the APF might advise our
government regarding in future?  Just if you haven't anything else to do :)

Cheers, Roger
Stephen Loosley
where street-view didn't reach,
and no-one seems to mind at all.