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Google Says Complete Privacy Does Not Exist
schliz writes "In a submission to court, Google is arguing that in the modern world there can be no expectation of privacy. Google is being sued by a Pennsylvania couple after their home appeared on Google's Street View pages. The couple's house is on a private road clearly marked as private property." Here is our previous story about Google Street View privacy issues.
Wouldn't that be "foogle?"
Next time I see a Google van on my private roads, it will be greeted with a bazooka. On my lands, there can be "no expectation of safety."
Do you really want to see Eric, Larry, or Sergi with a "wardrobe malfunction"?
Leave Google alone!!
There can be no expectation of frequency.
I think I speak for many of us oldtimers when I say:
GOOGLE! GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
But it makes for some mighty polite Door-to-Door salesmen.
This space for rent. All reasonable inquiries will be entertained at proprietors discretion.
And just how far does this magic bubble ("the law") extend to protect somebody's private property from public view? I'm a huge fan of laws. I'm not a fan of slashdot lawyers.
It actually works the other way. The council I work for commissions the arial photography and sells it to google.
Mmmm, pictures of hot nude fonts...
So, yes, there are exceptions, but that doesn't mean that Joe Random Individual can walk up my driveway to take photos of my backyard.
Tell that to Britney Spears.
"Your honour, my clients knocked on the gate and shouted 'WHERE'S YOUR ROBOTS.TXT?' three times. When the plaintiffs didn't answer, that's when my clients opened the gate and took pictures of everything. What's wrong with that? Nothing! I rest my case."
We'll have bigger problems to worry about, because physics will be broken.
FGD 135
Don't think of an elephant!
Funny thing is, if they had just kept quiet this would be a non issue. How many people would be going onto google maps and looking at their specific spot on the planet. Now that they have raised a stink, people from all around the globe will consider visiting the famous "privacy" home. Their actions are like someone jumping up and down saying "Don't look at me, don;t look at me".
There's a name for this 'effect', but it escapes me at the moment....
Yes, because the last thing I want is my utilities working properly.
Announcing Google Home View!
Just click on a house to see pictures of the interior and it's occupants in the restroom!
Worse, it means no internet.
Can you really be jailed for trespassing in America? If so, that's another notch on the twatometer.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Really? You think that it is a huge coincidence that since Google started this program, house prices all over the US have dropped considerably.
If I had mod points, I wouldn't know whether to mod you funny, or paranoid. I'm leaning toward funny.
(What do you mean, there is no longer a "paranoid" mod?!)
$nice = $webHosting + $domainNames + $sslCerts
Yeah well...when I was flying, we didn't have motors, or wings! We had to walk uphill, in the snow (important for the landing bit) to the edge of a cliff with nothing but a parachute, made of twine and burlap cloth, in case the feathers we were holding in our hands didnt work, AND WE LIKED IT.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. -- George Carlin
>> neighbourhood taking pictures of all the girls sunbathing topless in their own backyards
I'm sorry, which neighborhood was that again?
How the hell are blue and green circles saying "This Image Hosted By Tripod" going to keep the Google Street Team off my land?
Oppressing an entire population is never cheap.
--Jeckler (/. Beta IS GARBAGE!)