Google's new mapping feature includes unwitting subjects

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/1/07 | Michael Liedtke - ap

[NormsRevenge]

How would you .. make that

How should you feel being Googled and not even knowing it?

Flattered? Violated? Who cares? Huh?

[NormsRevenge]

Hi! *-)

Google Street View
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html

[Always Right]

Who cares, its just some photo at a resolution that makes you unrecognizable.

[cripplecreek]

It doesn’t bother me. My little town would only be about 3 pictures.

[Celerity]

Generally, if you’re embarassed by going into strip joints and bookstores,

Don’t go into them.

[wolfcreek]

Is it realtime? If so, we’ll have no secrets.

[HOTTIEBOY]

They say you can see people’s faces and license plates.

Yeah? So?

I saw a couple hundred faces and license plates when I went out to lunch today.
Even if I just look out my window I can see a couple dozen lisence plates in the parking lot.
Its called public.

[Ingtar]

Who cares, its just some photo at a resolution that makes you unrecognizable.

Have you looked at some of the samples posted on FR in the last couple days? You can read license numbers, see faces... These are high quality pictures.

[Always Right]

Is it realtime? If so, we’ll have no secrets.

Now real time would be cool, but for now they are just one snap shot in time.

[Always Right]

Have you looked at some of the samples posted on FR in the last couple days? You can read license numbers, see faces... These are high quality pictures.

So. I can go out and read your license plate number everytime you leave home. A license plate number by itself is meaningless. This is much to do about nothing.

[OpusatFR]

After 20 years of trying, my address is still wrong. It’s wrong with the real estate assessor, wrong on google, wrong on the maps, but right with the tax department.

Go figure.

I’m not to eager to rectify the constant mistake anymore especially with Google’s use of techology.

In any event, with google being some sort of fascist superstate of its own with a market cap bigger than some African countries, why don’t they just stop pretending they are just a listing on the Nasdaq and what they really want is to become some creepy Orwellian tyrants with their own version of the secret police.

On the other hand, can we see Johnny Depp’s place?

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

a couple coeds sunbathing in their bikinis

Coordinates please? :)

[dangus]

My parents’ house, built in 2000 is still not on Google. And it’s in a fairly high-density location in the US.

[Crawdad]

One day at the office, my friend found his house on GoogleEarth. His house was on fire.

[tet68]

Is Paris Hilton in any of these pictures?
If not, then who cares?

[SteveMcKing]

Every year will be worse and worse as the resolution and searching features improve.

This will give a giant advantage to professional criminals, for scouting robberies and other crimes.

[geopyg]

“This will give a giant advantage to professional criminals, for scouting robberies and other crimes.”

My wife got an email last night about google’s phone number search. I guess you can type in a phone number and find the address. Somehow you can (and she did) hide that information from google.

[Ingtar]

This guy might care. I believe it is in a bit of poor taste to do this. But if you visit this sort of place in broad daylight, you are just begging to be seen. I was simply trying to point out that the resolution is a lot higher than most people guess it to be.

[conserv8ive1]

Next year the resolution will be so good you can see the wet spot on his pants :)

[dan1123]

>>Coordinates please? :)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=googleplex&sll=37.448697,-120.948486&sspn=2.94791,5.141602&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.424822,-122.164756&cbp=1,169.16458375201,0.544471386059485,3&gl=us&ll=37.428678,-122.162175&spn=0.010479,0.020385&z=16