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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Google Maps "Street View" Circa 1907? Everything
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Tue Aug 14 14:11:29 2007
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Greetings. When Google started rolling out their "Street View"
photo mapping service, I wrote that I don't see any particular
significant privacy issues with the service in its current
incarnation ( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000244.html ).
Still, there continue to be people who are upset about detailed
street level photos taken in public places being published, even
though both law and history is on Google's side with this one.
So I was amused to be reminded yesterday that something very much
like Street View in significant ways (within the bounds of available
technology) existed a full century ago!
I discuss this briefly over on the PFIR Google Issues Forum, along
with an actual pair of photos showing what "Street View: 1907" really
looked like:
http://forums.pfir.org/main/messages/663/696.html
Your comments and thoughts about this issue are of course welcome in
that forum as well.
Everything old really is new again!
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com or lauren@pfir.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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