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April 11, 2008
Whose privacy?
Whose privacy? The Australian raises objection to Google Street View, because people may be in photographs later published within the web database. The newspaper then researches public (yet personal) info on Google executives, and highlights it in the article. That would be like me finding the one photo that shows the reporter, on a public street, picking up cigarette butts from the gutter, and highlighting that particular Google Street View page, while collecting ad revenue for each reader. There's lots and lots of information in the public record now, and it's reasonable to suppose that your actions in public are not invisible. But there's a difference between having a data bit somewhere in the depths of a database, and pulling that information up -- publishing it -- to embarrass others. What the newspaper is doing is far worse than what the search engine is doing.
Sidenote: I wonder what would happen if such street-view databases used multiple exposures and Photoshop's image stacks to remove the moving people....
Posted by JohnDowdell at April 11, 2008 07:14 PM
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*Excellent* suggestion, JD! I'm surprised no one at Google has taken the initiative yet.
Posted by: Roger Benningfield at April 12, 2008 07:19 AM