Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 3, 2010 @05:23AM from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

Officials in Riverhead, New York are using Google Earth to root out the owners of unlicensed pools. So far they've found 250 illegal pools and collected $75,000 in fines and fees. Of course not everyone thinks that a city should be spending time looking at aerial pictures of backyards. from the article: "Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC, said Google Earth was promoted as an aid to curious travelers but has become a tool for cash-hungry local governments. 'The technology is going so far ahead of what people think is possible, and there is too little discussion about community norms,' she said."

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Re:They collected $75,000... by pixelpusher220 · 2010-08-03 06:29 · Score: 1, Troll

Because a pool, above or below ground, couldn't leak and cause damage to neighbors?

Personal ownership comes with personal responsibility, something many of the proponents of your 'crackpot' theories seem to try and weasel out of when the bills come home to roost.

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