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Search giant helps people view things from the street as well as the sky. Some privacy advocates worry that it's going too far.
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that provides emergency medicine, reproductive medicine, HIV
treatment, domestic violence counseling, etc.? Pictures of people
coming and going from there are not really needed and certainly
not very sensitive to patients who may not want their faces
shown to the world. Indeed, the idea that google vans are going
to photograph people coming and going from a medical center
may discourage some from seeking needed care.
This is a medical center near Google's home, they should know
what it is and be sensitive to patients. This should be an obvious
place not to take pictures. (Also, as a top 10 medical center it is
considered a likely terrorist target which is another reason a
responsible company would not want to post pictures of it, but I
guess if they'll post pictures of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel they
just don't give a <bleep> about anybody but themselves).
Hey let's all go to the Google campuses and photograph
everybody coming and going and create a website filled with
pictures of every googler!
There must be a critical mass of turnover which turns a company from "best kept secret" into a paria to be avoided at all cost. I don't have a problem with what Google do and as a search engine it certainly seems to work reasonably well.
Maybe it's our fault? We always expect growth and developement. Any company which does something well but doesn't move on from there is seen as going backwards.
As for "considered a likely terrorist target..." How often is the paranoid card going to come out of the pack? If you let these "terrorists" change your life - they've won!
Posting pictures of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel -- how dare they!? They'll steal it's soul
Many people have said that we should not consider that we have privacy outside of our homes. Why not? I'm not out doing anything wrong. However, I don't think it's right that Google takes my picture and makes it available to anyone on the Internet. It's none of your business. I am not being paranoid. I just think we need to be more careful and more vocal about groups and governments doing this type of thing. Let one group do one thing ... then the next group will take it a little farther ... then the next. Is this how we, as a society, want to live? I think not.
http://www.kerika.com/2007/06/free-software-free-beer-and-free-lunch.html
What is astounding is that they have a overall positive public perception.
Well it took many years for people to clue in that MS is evil. Hopefully it won't take that long with Google, else they will own all of us.
What is almost as amazing is that people trust them to store emails of every kind, and they don't mind Google creeping around their computers.
Google is a company that abuses the privacy of countless millions, most of whom don't even realize they are under surveillance. Google is not a benevolent company. They are the new Microsoft, and in some ways even worse then that vile, worthless blood sucking company.
My dad showed me his Google Earth after I read 1984 in my sophomore year. I saw my mom's van parked right in front of Kinko's, obviously a morning snapshot. Dad said, "If they give those technologies, imagine how much content they have to themselves, and others.
Why else would stocks jump 400 points? It's a search engine...Ad space is meager profit.
This Street Map technology is great. They could scale down the picture part though as I do feel that is intrusive. And just because we think that Bush has intruded in our privacy, which his wiretapping and spying on americans does and is illegal, does not make it right for people to do it.
But if they took this map, and showed the streets in more detail, such as like the insets for cities on an atlas, and even put like the block numbers that would be really helpful. The names of businessnes, ect. But, I think they should leave out the cam part.
Being able to see what is in my backyard, when I have put up a privacy fence to keep prying eyes out of my business, which by the way cost money, is an intrusion of privacy.
A map is supposed to be used in order to find your way around. When you get to the destination, a then detailed map of the area is great.
Google should back off a bit. What people do, and where they go is no ones business but theirs. So I am giving Street Maps the thumbs down unless google changes things.
Esk
Rember, I thought of it first and want my 20%
of town?!!!
Have THEY no shame?
;-)
Being of sound mind and determined to be in control of my own life, I have stopped using Google long ago. This ban naturally extends to every Google site that I know of, inlcuding Youtube.
I consider it my persona duty to educate everyone I know about the howreally dangerous Google really is to the well being of Americans, and get as many people to stop having anything whatsoever to do with Google as I can.
If people do not wake up to the threat that Google & Yahoo pose to information & commerce on-line, by entering business after business, and by running a search engine where people have no real control of the search results, it will be too late soon.
That is why I have switched to this new search engine called Anoox which is powered by the knowledge of the people and is operated on a community based business model.
And I am evangelizing about it to all to do the same. I hope more and more people realize what you and me have realized.
u can stop using google services
unless they put a gun on ur forehead
to force u to use their services :p
or still better start a cute company
of urs ;)
thanks!
It is not a plot from the movie "Minority Report". It is inevitable future. Like it or not. You can run but can not hide.
hahahahaha
personal information is out there already.
If a Google can see you, imagine all the people going by in cars and
walking. If you are really concerned about privacy. Then put up
blinds!! Cancel your credit cards and use cash, even close your
bank account. Move into the mountains and become a hermit.
Otherwise, DEAL WITH IT people!!!
Er, that already exists, London Metropolitan Police have CCTV cameras that can recognises people's faces and can even detect behaviour pattens. Westminster City Council have microphones attached to CCTV cameras that can detect speech & some northern cities have cameras with speakers to ?prevent anti-social behaviour?.
I wonder if France will have GoogleStreetMap, as in France, everyone has the right to private life as stated under article 9 of the French Civil Code, so photographing someone without permission is illegal.
In those days if we didn't want anybody to see us naked or smoking pot or picking our noses, we simply didn't do so anyplace where we could be seen. Simple.
The same applies today. Video cameras, cell cameras, security cameras and satellites are all extensions of the human eye. The rules have not changed, silly people, the technology has changed.
If you don't want to be seen doing whatever you are doing that is not quite right, then do your dirty deeds indoors.
As for me, well, I'm a ham and I love a spotlight.
"I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille"
Isn't there a privacy lawyer somewhere who can give specifics on the chance of a large lawsuit anyone can sign onto?
A mask of the American flag would be perfect since our loyalty couldn't be questioned. If you are going to a strip club, then wear a George Bush or Dick Chaney mask. Or, take pictures of public and corporate officials, they won't mind.
2nd, Anoox search results are fundamentally better and more accurate because AnooX is powered by knowledge of the people, that is YOU and me.
More info about this is here:
http://www.anoox.com/voting_overview.jsp
And there are other reasons I have switched to Anoox and am urging all to do same, it has
mainly to do with the fact that AnooX is a Community based (not-for-profit) business.
So whereas Google or Yahoo are run to maximize profits & share prices, which means control the "eye balls" of people world wide, Anoox is run without any concerns to profits or share prices, it is run for the benefit of community members which means YOU and me.
http://www.anoox.com/adp_overwiev.jsp
One implication of this fact is that the cost of Advertising on Anoox is much lower. In fact most months we make more as an Anoox affiliate than we pay for Advertising on Anoox. To say Anoox is way cool, is putting it mildly :)
Also Anoox is run based on an Open Source model, where no ONE company controls it but many companies from around the world do. So if you are not brain washed by the hype about Google & Yahoo, if you think for yourself, then use the search engine that is "Powered by the Knowledge of the People", use Anoox.
2. Anoox is not open source. You need to pay to see the code. What part of open source don't you understand?
3. You don't exist. Prove me wrong. Why can't you just pay to advertise, eh Dean?
than by the machines mysteriously as is the case with the big 3 search engines. I really think it is the most revolutionary thing that has happened to the search engine industry and that it will punch a giant hole in the Google & Yahoo
trying to control information world wide.
This does not mean Anoox cannot improve in certain areas, such as speed of their search results. It should be faster.
And what is with that name! What the hek does Anoox mean?
But all and all it is the best new search engine I have seen, and one that delivers quantum leap in value to search users and advertisers.
P.S., In order of honesty I should state that I am an Anoox Affiliate. And that we love it. Specially through the super Affiliate program we are making close to $10,000 per month. So yes I have a reason to be talk up Anoox. But hey anyone can become an Anoox affiliate.
protect me from fraud, theft and various scams
shame on them
- When Someone Chirps 'Don't be Evil!' . . . .
- by Sumatra-Bosch June 17, 2007 8:42 PM PDT
- You know you are dealing with someone from the Mansons.
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