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Found on cnet news : "Last September, a 14-year-old boy told police in Groningen, Holland, that he had been knocked off his bike and robbed of some money and his cell phone.
What evidence did he have of his alleged assailants? Very little.
Six months later, the Associated Press reports, he was pootling around on Google Street View when he saw an image of himself--and of two males behind him, who, he seemed to remember, were just in the place where he was allegedly robbed."
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Slashdot discusses a story named Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town.
Their summary: "A Google Street View car has been chased out of a British village by angry residents. The car was taking photographs of Broughton in Buckinghamshire for Google's when it was spotted by a local resident who warned the car not to enter the village then roused his neighbors, who surrounded the vehicle until the driver performed a U-turn and left. 'This is an affluent area,' protester Paul Jacobs said. 'We've already had three burglaries locally in the past six weeks. If our houses are plastered all over Google it's an invitation for more criminals to strike. I was determined to make a stand, so I called the police.'"
It's not the first time StreetView gets this 'type' of attention, see previous stories below.
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Found on cnet news : "Greece has decided to stop the lovely, sensitive Google Street View drivers from taking any more pictures while it considers whether those young Turks are taking too many liberties. It has asked the somewhat large search company to provide information regarding the length of time Google intends to keep the images."
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Slashdot is discussing a cnet UK article on the usage of tricylcles to capture street view imagery in areas where cars can't reach. Here is a snippet of the slashdot summary : "To advance its Street View service this summer, Google is poised to unleash the unstoppable power of human legs. Google will deploy pedal-powered tricycles — the company calls them 'Google Trikes' — mounted with 360 degree Street View cameras to map areas inaccessible by its fleet of Street View cars."
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The Google Earth Blog has what seems to be a major scoop on Google Street View. be sure to check out their video. Here is their summary : "Google has just released an update to their Street View application - as viewed in the browser-based Google Maps (not yet available in Google Earth). The update has not yet been announced, and the new features may not be deployed to all country versions of Google Maps yet (based on reports I've had from GEB readers). When you move your mouse around the view in Street View, you now get a "3D" rectangle or ellipse "icon" indicating the position of a view available on the sides of buildings (and other structures), or to move you further down the street. When you double-click you get this animated motion-blur effect as you zoom over to that location and the camera turns to face the location you've picked (turns and tilts). This is a very intuitive, and much more useful, way to move within the Street View imagery. Plus, it looks really cool!"
Update: 06/08 13:02 GMT by S : Here's the official announcement on StreetView's improvements.
Industry: Are Streetview Privacy Concerns Taken Seriously? 3 comments
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Bull writes "After hearing about a rude word written on a school's roof visible in Google Maps I decided to check it out, it wasn't that impressive a typical prank, what was more interesting was when I zoomed in further and explored the area using Streetview.
In under three minutes I noticed an unblurred car license plate and two unblurred faces, now I understand the technological problems involved in detecting faces and number plates but I genuinely expected Google to do a better job than this. They have got the publics acceptance by promising the blurring features, but in my opinion the promises should be kept, and if they can't be kept Google should at the very least stop adding new Streetview imagery until their software is improved.
I will probably get flamed by the Google fanboys, to preempt some of the inevitable comments, yes you can contact Google and ask them to remove any photos, but why is this our job? Don't they have a QA department with paid staff? Yes I can walk down the street and see people with unblurred faces, but they can also see me, plus I'm one person not several million.
Another thing worth considering is what would happen if you walked around a town taking photos of everyone and everything? I'm pretty sure you would end up being interviewed by the police, and I doubt promising to blur the images of faces, especially childrens faces, would get you very far."
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Currently in discussion on slashdot. Here is their summary : "After repeated concerns from Japanese citizens over privacy rights violations involving Street View and a probe by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Google Japan has announced that it will help victims of Street View photo abuse take action against offending sites. Google Japan said it would send requests to the sites for removal of maliciously used Street View images. It will also potentially block the site from Google's search engine and consider legal action for those sites which ignore or refuse the request. Action to this extent against secondary-use abusers is reportedly a first in relationship to Google's Street View worldwide."
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Found on cnet news : "A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit that a Pennsylvania couple filed against Google after a driver for its Street View service took a panoramic photograph of their secluded home. But the Third Circuit Court of Appeals hinted that Aaron and Christine Boring may only be able to wrest $1 in damages from the search company--unless they can prove that they were actually harmed in the moment the Google driver lingered on their property. "
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