Google images violate privacy?

10 years 4 months ago #308247 by ShutterGuy
Surfing around this morning I came across an older article: ( techcrunch.com/2012/09/28/google-maps-no...d-45-aerial-imagery/ ) talking about the newer high resolution photos that Google is taking. For the first time I did a search for my home and I could see extremely fine details of my home and even the construction trucks that were in my driveway. Now I know it's Google and they can do what the want, but does anyone else feel that these detailed photos from the sky and from street of your homes is in some way a privacy violation?

Researching this further I found articles showing Google is now photographing inside of buildings that many of us work in too! Yikes! Where does it end? Soon we will have Google posting everything about our personal lives and nothing will be private any longer.

Thoughts?


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10 years 4 months ago #308327 by Paris Gal
We are in America, surveillance is a big item in the news and something that we need to get used too

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10 years 4 months ago #308341 by Joves

Paris Gal wrote: We are in America, surveillance is a big item in the news and something that we need to get used too


Ummm! NO! We do not need to get used to it. While in public we have no expectation of privacy, the line is between public, and private. In your home you do have the right to privacy, which Google is not violating by taking photos from the street. If anything it is going to get worse when municipalities start acquiring drones. Some of those will have thermal imaging to see indoors which is a clear violation. All of this garbage of governmental cameras everywhere is fascism. I could never live in a major city because of this. Or across the little pond where it has been going on for years. Luckily one day I will be moving back to Az where the place I live at there is far from Googles street view eye. We as a free people should never get used to it.


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10 years 4 months ago - 10 years 4 months ago #308375 by effron
If you're worried about Google, you probably don't want to know what the gubberment can see.... :angry: ....

Edit: I posted prior to reading Dennis' post, and he's CORRECT!

Why so serious?
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10 years 4 months ago #308379 by StephanieW
I'm a fan of street view for practical purposes. It helps me locate things etc. I don't think Google will be taking pictures inside of private buildings so I don't think we really have anything to worry about on that front. However, Google has had privacy issues in the past over street view. It was mainly the fact that their equipment picked up private information as they drove around town taking pictures, though, not an issue with the actual pictures themselves. I think Google is generally ethical, but when it comes to the information tech business you're going to straddle the lines of ethics. I just hope Google continues being generally good and doesn't start being super creepy.


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10 years 4 months ago #308383 by cybersholt
we could always end up like blurmany eh i mean Germany

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10 years 4 months ago #308385 by StephanieW

cybersholt wrote: we could always end up like blurmany eh i mean Germany


The term "blurmany" made me laugh way harder than I'd care to admit. That's hilarious.


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10 years 4 months ago #308461 by Vahrenkamp

effron wrote: If you're worried about Google, you probably don't want to know what the gubberment can see.... :angry: ....

Edit: I posted prior to reading Dennis' post, and he's CORRECT!



Boy isn't that the understatement!


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10 years 4 months ago #308465 by garyrhook

ShutterGuy wrote: ...but does anyone else feel that these detailed photos from the sky and from street of your homes is in some way a privacy violation?

Researching this further I found articles showing Google is now photographing inside of buildings that many of us work in too! Yikes! Where does it end? Soon we will have Google posting everything about our personal lives and nothing will be private any longer.


In the US anything visible from a public location without the use of "special equipment" (i.e. a telephoto lens) is fair game for photography. That means that anything you can see from the street or sidewalk can be legally recorded by camera. I'm having a hard time understanding how this is a privacy violation? This is nothing more than you or I can do with our 16+ MP cameras, just on a larger scale.

I'm willing to bet that Google is not recording the interiors of buildings without the express permission of the building owners. How is this a privacy violation?


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10 years 4 months ago #308481 by Stealthy Ninja

ShutterGuy wrote: For the first time I did a search for my home and I could see extremely fine details of my home and even the construction trucks that were in my driveway.


Seeing a truck is "extremely fine details"?
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10 years 4 months ago #308589 by JaneK
I use Google all the time and really never thought about the maps as an impediment to my privacy


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10 years 4 months ago #308965 by Roy Wilson
It's going to happen regardless of what we think, I tend not to pay much attention to it. Just don't lay out in your back yard in the nude!

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