The amazing thing is that you welcome this with such open arms. Do you not remember when you were a kid being able to play in your yard for hours without your parents hovering over you, scanning the horizon? Do you not remember being able to run up and down your block with the other kids and having your mom call you in for dinner after a few hours of playing in the neighborhood? Oh, it occurred to me that maybe you're too young to remember that. And now our children have the misfortune of growing up in a world where parents must accept that random people will be pointing cameras at their property at an unspecified time (sometime between 9 and 4) and that if kiddie wants to ride his bike up and down the driveway for a few minutes, you must stand next to them the whole time.
What a sad childhood our kids are going to have. And how many lessons in life are they going to miss out on because people like you require parents to hover over their children like nervous Nellies after you've gleefully informed them that they and their children have no expectation of privacy. "Hey, parents! Google is taking pictures of your home. AT&T is tapping your phone. Comcast is tracking your email. But what are you complaining about?! You have no expectation of privacy. You should be SUPERVISING!"
Are there no parents discussing this issue? I'm guessing that no one is going to be too happy that little Johnny who they sent out to play in the yard is now smiling on Google maps directly under his address with a "Directions to" bar over his head. First they tell parents they have to be ever-vigilant to keep the kids off the Net and away from the thousands of predators who are supposed to be lurking around every corner of cyberspace while Google is shooting drive-bys and putting the kiddies' pictures up and telling the predators exactly how to find them. But who are we to complain; it's all about the bottom line.
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The amazing thing is that you welcome this with such open arms. Do you not remember when you were a kid being able to play in your yard for hours without your parents hovering over you, scanning the horizon? Do you not remember being able to run up and down your block with the other kids and having your mom call you in for dinner after a few hours of playing in the neighborhood? Oh, it occurred to me that maybe you're too young to remember that. And now our children have the misfortune of growing up in a world where parents must accept that random people will be pointing cameras at their property at an unspecified time (sometime between 9 and 4) and that if kiddie wants to ride his bike up and down the driveway for a few minutes, you must stand next to them the whole time. What a sad childhood our kids are going to have. And how many lessons in life are they going to miss out on because people like you require parents to hover over their children like nervous Nellies after you've gleefully informed them that they and their children have no expectation of privacy. "Hey, parents! Google is taking pictures of your home. AT&T is tapping your phone. Comcast is tracking your email. But what are you complaining about?! You have no expectation of privacy. You should be SUPERVISING!"
Are there no parents discussing this issue? I'm guessing that no one is going to be too happy that little Johnny who they sent out to play in the yard is now smiling on Google maps directly under his address with a "Directions to" bar over his head. First they tell parents they have to be ever-vigilant to keep the kids off the Net and away from the thousands of predators who are supposed to be lurking around every corner of cyberspace while Google is shooting drive-bys and putting the kiddies' pictures up and telling the predators exactly how to find them. But who are we to complain; it's all about the bottom line.