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Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns

Posted by Zonk on from the we-see-everybody-now dept.

Pcol writes "The New York Times is running a story about a woman who says her cat is clearly visible through the living room window of her second-floor apartment using Street View and that she has contacted Google asking that the photo be removed. 'The issue that I have ultimately is about where you draw the line between taking public photos and zooming in on people's lives,' Ms. Kalin-Casey said in an interview. 'The next step might be seeing books on my shelf. If the government was doing this, people would be outraged.' Wired has started a contest on the most interesting photos found using the new Google Tool that now includes sunbathing coeds, alleged drug deals, and the google van itself. 'I think that this product illustrates a tension between our First Amendment right to document public spaces around us, and the privacy interests people have as they go about their day,' says Kevin Bankston, a staff lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation."

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  1. Re:not just her cat by ceejayoz · · Score: 1, Troll

    Not to mention willingly posing for another photo that winds up printed in the New York Times...

  2. Privacy by whisper_jeff · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you have nothing to hide, who cares? If you have something to hide, close the drapes.

    Then again, I'm Canadian, so what do I know?

  3. typical and low iq by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Troll

    people like you are the reason headlines scream in 100 point font about the latest shark attack, and thousands die every week of car accidents, undiscussed

    it basically boils down to your inability to evaluate probability when faced with hysteria. in this case, the b-level hollywood plot hysteria about men in black from the government come to drag you away in a van and plant probes in your butt, or whatever your paranoid fantasy is

    compared to the certainty, AS PUBLICLY STATED BY GOOGLE, that your privacy will be violated by them

    i already responded to another dolt on the same issue, see the link there:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=236997&cid=193 53369

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  4. Re:i've been saying it for a long time now by Pojut · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mod parent the fuck up.

    If I had points, I definately would. Very well put, good sir.

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