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Google Streetview
Apr 29, 2008 | 9:11 AM
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This issue with Google streetview showing kids on the photos taken is disturbing. I can easily understand Google's standpoint on this issue - that whatever is visible in the public view is public domain.

But, my questions are as follows: What's the difference in the 'streetview' photo and driving by a school-yard and photographing kids on the playground? Is that not just as disturbing? Wouldn't someone photographing children on a playground cause more uproar? Yet, the streetview is the same thing.

To me, and to a great many other people I'm sure, there IS no difference.

Google, what gives? You've got multi-billions of dollars as a corporate giant, so you're just going to push the envelope of privacy issues in this country until they break? Please, spare me and everyone else the rhetoric, pad answers for this and just stop doing this!
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Delusion read my blog view my photos
Apr 29, 2008 | 5:24 PM

Have you noticed everyone's expectation of privacy is being whittled down daily? Google says the photos of the kids is not invasion of privacy since there is 'no expectation of privacy while in public view'. Nicely spun, right?
A few weeks ago I wrote a post called 'Big Brother Is Us' about how it isn't the government we have to worry about, it's everyone else! Sure enough, Google (of all companies, right?) pulls this and the outcry is not what it should be. Imagine if the government was doing this? There would be riots galore. Are we becoming used to having no privacy, and if so, what does that say about us and where we are being herded?
brer-fox read my blog view my photos
Apr 29, 2008 | 9:58 PM

Delusion - Exactly!

Niccolo Machiavelli talked about this slow dissolve of ideals "that men once died to protect" in his book 'The Prince'. In it he discusses how the sovereignty of a nation-state is slowly eaten away until there is "nothing left but mourning for the things that could have been".

(Interesting, now that I think about it, that Hitler kept a copy of this book by his bedside)

It's the Golden Rule - He who has the gold, makes the rules.
Brer-Rabbit read my blog
Apr 30, 2008 | 3:16 PM

This Google question Brer-Fox brings up is a multi-headed hydra.

Google is also working hand-in-steel-glove with the Chinese government to ensure that the people of China can use "Google" with Chinese- approved filters and blocks. In other words, Google is actively suppressing the freedom of speech, thougtht, and knowledge in China.

Nice huh?


Google IS Big Brother.
brer-fox read my blog view my photos
May 1, 2008 | 12:17 PM

It may well become: Which corporationality are you? ... instead of: Which nationality are you?

We belong to the government of Google - Land of the steel glove, home of the web-surfers that don't care about privacy issues (even when Google Street View has a picture of you standing in your bathroom naked posted on the Internet - since it can be seen from the street, of course, and it's public domain).

I tell ya, Brer-Rabbit, my reference to lemmings (quite eerily) may well describe a lot of the people that just sit back and let this stuff happen. Might I also point out the old phrase "being fatted like the Christmas goose".
quirkeejames read my blog view my photos
May 5, 2008 | 8:50 PM

I'm wondering how clear these photos are of the children in question. I can tell that it is my truck in my driveway on Street View but if my child was standing next to it you wouldn't be able to make out his/her face.

Obviously I don't want somebody driving by my house with a camera snapping photos of my kids, and if I saw it happen I would pursue them while calling the police. Google photog or not, I'll be chasing them down.
brer-fox read my blog view my photos
May 8, 2008 | 3:23 AM

I'm not sure if anyone is still reading this, but if so:

How about the news story of 7-year-old Taylor Chestnut being stalked by Diego Cano? Would anyone like to argue that what Google did (and apparently IS doing) is any different from what Diego did? The simple answer is 'NO'.

quirkeejames, you've got children (By the way, some of your photos are gorgeous - especially with the sunsets), and I would back you 100% as a concerned citizen if you DID chase them down. I think you've got a right to protect your children from the 'deviants' in society - regardless what our law books have written in them.
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