Comments on: Greece halts Google Street View

The Greeks are concerned about how long Google will keep the images and other security issues.

[MarkG-1]

Is this journalism? First of all, nothing was halted as Google hasnt even started taking any photos.

Second, comparing a privacy agency asking for more information on the use of data and data collection practices for a service (as it is supposed to do by law) with a complete state-wide ban of a website for over 2 years because of a few videos is quite ridiculous. And use of a (not exactly life-critical) service like Google StreetView is a liberty?

"Irony" and "sarcasm" have to support a valid point you know...

[Joel_Be]

Is it journalism...? Nope. Its a person stringing some ideas along, trying to get hits by showing the negative points of each.

[George_Marenco]

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

-Plato

[gerrrg]

Google View is my favorite way of investigating possible routes for traveling on vacation. With Google View, I can capture the scene of where I need to make unmarked or obfuscated turns. It also allows me to verify that the building I'm looking for - because I like buildings - is actually there.

When going to someone's house or some place for the first time, it allows me to verify the building or home that I'm headed to; this way, when I get to my destination I'll have already seen it before I get there. This is especially important when driving at night.

Those folks without it have no idea how much they're missing out.

[ia00]

This article is of terrible quality, giving irrelevant personal opinions and trying to bias the readers position. Please, fire this guy!

[Hunnter2k3]

Perhaps you should learn to read before you make accusations and request firing. (especially since it isn't possible in the first place)

[Hunnter2k3]

It always makes me wonder why they don't use the already quite powerful thing they have in space to do such a job.
Satellites have this amazing ability to move very easily and capture a completely different angle of millions of targets.

It's not like Google to not try this and pass it through some object recognition and pattern stitching.

[Takis_Pap]

Dear Mister Matyszczyk, you should ask a lawyer before writing something like this. No one is above the law, not even Google. The greek "privacy" law does not allow anyone to record someone else whithout his consent or knowledge. That's why the "Hellenic Data Protection Authority" did not allow google to show faces of people.

[Pete Bardo]

What's all the excitement about? This is a blog, it's not journalism. Not a lot of opinion here either. Hey, the blog title is "Technically Incorrect". What part of this post wasn't?

[michael_j_x]

award-winning creative director? Maybe you should stick to directing, because with blogging you aint doing so good. And please don't tell me that you are actually doing journalism.

[DasPwn]

http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-559597

This is the reason privacyinternational.org rates Greece as the only country with "adequate safeguards against abuse" of personal information.

For all the Greek government's flaws (and I am not talking about only our current one), the Greek constitution trully preserves our rights to privacy of its citizens and thankfully no amendmends have been made so far so as to "increase our security" at the cost of our freedom.

GPS is good enough if a friend has trouble finding where I live, I don't want everyone in the world to know what my back yard looks like.

[doddy86]

check here if u want to know more about greece http://www.greekorthodox.com/

[grandstreets]

Grandstreets has a different kind of street view, where entire streets are assembled into a single panorama for easy browsing. Try it at:
http://www.grandstreets.com