Big Brother: The Google cars

[Sweetpea]

Plans by Google to photograph millions of British homes and publish them online have been condemned as a 'gross invasion of privacy'.
The internet giant's StreetView website will allow anyone in the world to type in a UK address or postcode and instantly see a 360-degree picture of the street.
It will include close-ups of buildings, cars and people. Critics say the site is a 'burglar's charter' that makes it easy for criminals to check out potential victims.
The pictures also show people leaving and entering hospitals, health clinics, adult shops and hotels. Although their faces are deliberately blurred, many could still be recognised by their clothing and hair colour.
The site was launched in major American cities last year.


Big Brother: The Google cars that will photograph EVERY front door in Britain | Mail Online


They'll never find US in our little close.

[Haqa]

Typical American arrogance...

H.

[poppy]

I am really not bothered by this one, it isn't in real time just one off still photos, not a lot different from google earth's
Burglars want to use it, they could end up going to rob a house that had been knocked down 6 months earlier.
I do appose the yanks thinking they have the right to do whatever they like though.

[Churchill]

Paranoia or what?

There is nothinhg in British, or most other countries laws to stop any one photographing who or what they want when they want, in a public space, even if the subject of the photograph may be in a private place. A fenced garden for instance, visible from public land.

UNLESS it is decided in a court that it is against the public interest, the ban on photographs in Parliament square, for example, or a breach of security, at military sites, or the subject has a court order banning the photographing of....XYZ.

THIS last one however is notoriously difficult to get a nick on, and the fines, except in certain well known cases, Bloody stupid Diana for example, are miniscule.

And WHO is going to be able to afford to take Google to court because their front door is plastered all over T-Shirts in Outer Mongolia?

[Sweetpea]

In this country, you cannot have a private CCTV if it falls on 'public' places. So?

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

In this country, you cannot have a private CCTV if it falls on 'public' places. So?

I NEVER said that the law was NOT an ass.

(But the photography laws are older.)

Normaly these question CAN be cleared up BUT not without reading the full Hansard report for EVERY time it was mentioned in going through the House of commons, and the Lords equivallent, and all the committe reports, and all the house reccomendations, and......

Similar as indecent exposure.

A woman stands in front of a lit bedroom window naked and shaking her tits at every passer by, the passer by commits an offence by looking (Peeping Tom), IF the woman in the window complains.

If a MAN stands in front of the window wobling his dick, HE gets done NOT the passers by that look.

[Haqa]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

In this country, you cannot have a private CCTV if it falls on 'public' places. So?

I think the difference (as I understand it) is between moving (or frequently updated still) images and single, non updated, still images. The former is controlled, while the latter is less so...

That's my understanding anyway.

H.