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German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View

Posted by timothy on from the irregular-shoot-'em-up dept.

crf00 writes with this report excerpted from Blogoscoped: "'Spiegel reports that German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take snapshots of all those (German) buildings which people asked Google Street View to remove. He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordinates, and in turn re-connect them with Google Maps. Jens believes that for the internet 'we must apply the same rules as we do in the real world. Our right to take panoramic snapshots, for instance, or to take photographs in public spaces, both base laws which determine that one may photograph those things that are visible from public streets and places.' Jens says that for his belief in the right of photographing in public places, as last resort he's even willing to go to jail. Spiegel says Jens already found over 200 people who want to help out in this project and look for removed locations in Google Street View, as there's no official list of such places published by Google."

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  1. German attention whore Jens Best was found dead. by Phizzle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Anonymous source close to the investigation says that Jens Best had choked on a wide angle lens that was shoved down his throat, his netbook was found firmly embedded in his rectum. There was much rejoicing.

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    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
  2. Re:Erm... by dissy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This doesn't seem to be a "The man is restricting our rights", more of a "people are nicely asking for some attempt at privacy", and this asshole (Jens Best) wants to say "FUCK YOU, I'm going to go against you because I can, even though you were nice enough to ask otherwise"

    So when I politely ask you to stop selfishly keeping your entire paycheck, and instead give it to me... You are the asshole when you say no?

    I mean you are just going against my wishes because you can, even though I was nice enough to ask otherwise.

  3. Re:Erm... by Psychotria · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Call me old-fashioned or idealistic, but I think that may just make the world a better place, in some small way.

    You're not old fashioned or idealistic, so I won't call you that. You're either delusional or an idiot.