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Google Funny Street Views: Discreet Privacy

A couple of months ago, Google's web mapping service GOOGLE MAPS launched a new feature: Google Street View. A panoramic street level environment lets you descend from the sky and virtually travel through the streets. However, some very funny Google Street View images have surfaced on the internet raising privacy issues.

Consider for example, this image from the Chicago and you can see why we think Google Street Views are funny, yet concerning about privacy.

Already this publication has reported a lawsuit that a couple has filed against Google Street Views alleging that the service violates their privacy.

"Aaron and Christine Boring (yes, that's really their name) filed suit in Allegheny County court on April 2. The couple, who lives in Pittsburgh, says that there is a private road sign on their street that Google should have honored."

Patric Carlsson who writs for the Blog of Intellectual Capitals while explaining how useful Google Maps and Street Views can be contends that there are "some funny pictures to find aside from all the usefulness."

It's not known how many complaints Google Street Views will still receive and how is the company going to respond to them. However, one thing we are sure of is the fact that while many people are going to consider some of the Google Street Views to be funny, many others are going to think they are violating people's right to privacy.

 

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Stumpedia: search won’t be come more social than this

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:13:41 PDT
Every week we publish an interview with a start-up. We ask five questions, hoping the answers will give you inspiration and new views. Well, actually six questions, since we also ask the start-up to who he or she is passing the mic to. This time we’re interviewing Luis Pereira, Founder & CEO Stumpedia, a human-powered social search engine that enables registered users to submit sites and matching keywords and phrases. The relevancy of search results are then ranked and rated by the community.

WATCHMEN: First Look! Behind the Scenes Video!

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:03:49 PDT
Watchmen's alternate universe version of New York City, circa 1985, comes to life in this behind the scenes video showing. Five years ago, I'm not sure what would have been less believable: That a Watchmen movie was going to be faithful to the graphic novel, or that Rorschach would be played by Kelly Leak from the Bad News Bears.

Police in Zimbabwe raid opposition offices - Edmonton Sun

Police in Zimbabwe raid opposition offices Edmonton Sun, Canada - Apr 3, 2008 Adrienne Arsenault, a reporter for CBC NewsWorld, says she was standing in the driveway of a different hotel earlier in the day and was grabbed by riot ...

The News (Old)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:57:28 PDT
This morning I used Yahoo! to find more info on ‘late breaking news’.. And this is one of the first results I found: I can not stress enough the precedence that those of us coming into our late teens, adulthood, and into the age where we are now stepping up to become the informants, r ather than the informed, be prepared. … Maybe reaching that breaking point was a key factor in the counter-culture movements of the 50s and 60s…. source: The News (Old), Jack - MySpace Blog What do you

Global Cooling?

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:25:19 PDT
Global Cooling? That bone-chilling global warming, from the BBC: Global temperatures for 2008 will be slightly cooler than last year as a result of the cold La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said. The World Meteorological Organization’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer. and this: This would mean that temperatures have not risen globally since 1998 when El Nino warmed the world. Watching trends

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