Do a Google search for "video jammer".
Posted on 12/30/2008 8:18:22 AM PST by syriacus
Beware of tripping over, sunbathing topless, cheating on your partner in public... - if there's a Google van passing by, the evidence will be forever set in a 360-degree photographic panorama and posted online for all to see.
Google's ever increasing mapping applications are getting ever-increasingly closer to our personal lives. Suspicious minds won't need to bother with private detectives - they can simply log on to Google Maps and access the pedestrian-level view of the entire city - if they're lucky enough to live in Milan, Paris, or the majority of the US, New Zealand, Australia or Japan... Otherwise, not long to wait - Google Street View is soon to arrive in the UK and looks set to pan the entire world.
So far the application has been received warmly, and perceived as a meeting, directions and house hunting tool. There are even activities like scavenger hunts set up for those who find Street View more aesthetically pleasing than real life. However, as the data collector travels further afield and more "Street View Tourists" find themselves online - not necessarily doing something they're proud of - Google has found itself under fire for privacy concerns. In Japan, a group of lawyers have set themselves up under the name "The Campaign Against Surveillance Society", just weeks after the application was rolled out there. And in the UK, there's already an anti Street View project going, before the programme has even been launched.
(Excerpt) Read more at observers.france24.com ...
...an entire fleet of at least 30 brand-new Chevy Cobalt cars parked behind the building, most without license plates yet. As you can see in the pictures above, each had a metal device attached to its top, which looks suspiciously like a vertical extension for mounting Google's Streetview 360° camera.Our telltale tipster tells us he thinks Google is "preparing their invasion of US cities with an armada of C.C.C.Cs (Chevy Cobalt Camera Cars). I guess Cobalts are cheap but they certainly will be conspicuous. Maybe that's what they want."
That is a good point.
We have one of those soft sided pools. Wonder if this is going to make my taxes go up like a hard sided one. How can you tell from the air?
It’d be good to have a privacy amendment to the US Constitution that explicitly gave an individual right to privacy from the various governments and other organizations and individuals.
Hilarious. This is a country where tax inspectors can enter a home any time they want to see if you've improved the property--with the full approval of the electorate, who gave Labour absolute power for the last ten years. And now they're worried about personal privacy? What a laugh.
This is a fight that was over before anybody even raised the question. The technology is out there period. The best anyone can ever hope for is the ability to have their little piece of property blurred out.
Apparently the writer hasn’t caught on to windows live search with it’s aerial photos from several angles.
I got behind one of the picture vans in Phoenix a couple weeks ago. I followed it for a few miles smiling and waving.
France, July 22, 2008
I love google earth, it has panoramic pictures of my old town and places I grew up. I recommend you all try this free service. You will become addicted to flying around the world and looking at tops of houses and blocks and cities.
I think the IRS still does “lifestyle audits” don’t they?
Can I go to Machu Pichu (spelling)....with Google earth...I told my husband that was the ONLY way I’d go....via video.
Google “shot” me in my front yard as they drove by. As I was moving to get a better look at them as they drove by while “shooting”, it’s all very blurry. Ghostly even.
Yep, been there, done it already. It's cool.
Do a Google search for "video jammer".
I've done the same. It's amazing. It's also great for house hunting.
My husband and I were checking his childhood neighborhood in Queens when we began to wonder how Google did this.
AND??????
Don’t do anything within view of the public that would embarass you or be illegal.
The mere existence of any technology is no reason to allow abuses.
Of course now everyone can experience the way the paparazzi have invaded the privacy of the celebrities.
Happy Fishbowl Life; may Googlers rot in hell!
How about just putting signs in our front yards that say;
“GOOGLE: BIG BROTHER’S LITTLE HELPER”.
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