Too Much Information?

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Too Much Information?

May 30th, 2007 friskyGeek, Random Post of Wisdom Linkage | Digg This | ##

As I was playing around with Google Maps’ new Street View feature today, I kept thinking to myself: Its only a matter of time before someone sues them for invasion of privacy. Take a look at this map. I can clearly see a car’s license plate. And this picture of a jogger enjoying her morning (or evening, I dont know) jog, oblivious about the fact that her image is out there for billions to see. There are numerous other examples out there where I can see into people’s open windows of their homes.

I think there is undoubtedly gonna be some ethical and moral debate over how much information is too much, and where to draw the line betweek kick ass applications like Google Maps and privacy of citizens.

Update: A collection of some interesting Street View pictures.

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1 Ingo Vogelmann May 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm

Agreed. This is like the “security against terrorism” strategy the German politicians get assimilated by American idols at the moment. Fuck G8, this is about ruling the world by world rulers that no one elected as those.

Privacy is a BASIC RIGHT of every individual. Google StreetView goes WAY too far. What if I want to masturbate in a park?
2 Papigiulio May 31st, 2007 at 4:35 am

Hmm forgot to check it at home!! At work no possible streetview. But yeah, its hard to draw a line, we want to fully secure us, but then we lost alot of privacy aswell.

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