All Your Privacy Belongs To Google (Trees And Things)

Steve Urkel: Re: public servants

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:35:59 EST

That's so Japanese, isn't it?

zyxwvutsr: Re: public servants

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 18:57:23 EST

...you would be asked, after initial questioning, to come to either the Ikegami Police Station or the Den-en-Chofu Police Station.

It's nice of them to give you a choice.

thefadd: Re: What's It Like Driving A Street View Van?

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:42:39 EST

great link

Steve Urkel: Kaimami

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:01:32 EST

An interesting pice on how street view has greatly offended the the Japanese sense of privacy:

"For people living in urban areas in Jap

MayorBob: What's It Like Driving A Street View Van?

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 13:01:25 EST

Interesting little discussion with a Street View driver a British guy had in London.

thefadd: Re: Extensions

Tue, 5 Aug 2008 23:03:55 EST

That was a very interesting court case in Europe with that very question at hand. I don't recall it discussed here or on plastic but it's a very compelling

port1080: Re: Extensions

Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:28:02 EST

We don't measure it by how much surveillance is allowed, but by whether each particular instance of surveillance invades someone's privacy. It is wholly inconsistent, under this model, to say that it's fine if Google invades your privacy but not f

profwhat: Re: Extensions

Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:00:20 EST
That's crazy. You are happy to let the self-important overfed geeks at Google have access to this information, but not the people you have elected and hired to protect yourself? Google is accountable to no one, police departments using cameras to automatically check car license plates, for cars that are parked

zyxwvutsr: Re: All Your Privacy Belongs To Google

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:19:24 EST

Even if the satellite is directly over your property, it's ludicrous to claim that it's "on" your property
Yes, that is ludicrous. But I was talking about people standing (or sitting, or whatever) on the ground outside your p

MayorBob: You're doing a lot of supposing.

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:54:51 EST
Mostly about what the Borings would say if their house was simply on the end of a public road in a cul-de-sac. What they're saying is "hey, this road is a private road and Google (just like everyone else) needs to ask permission to be there." What Google

port1080: Re: All Your Privacy Belongs To Google

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:53:13 EST
If you are situated in a place on your property where you cannot be seen from off your property, then you have the right to expect privacy.
Well, do you? This is where Google's claim about satellite photography becomes interesting. Ev

zyxwvutsr: Re: All Your Privacy Belongs To Google

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:45:34 EST

...we shouldn't allow the basic argument about property rights (i.e. whether Google's truck had the right to be where it was) to extend into an argument about whether Google's truck had the right to photograph what it did
Why

port1080: Re: All Your Privacy Belongs To Google

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:14:27 EST
The issue isn't one of defining privacy, its one of property rights. Either you need my permission to come on my property or you don't.
Well, I agree with you on this one to an extent, but I also think that expectations of property rights can and

port1080: Re: All Your Privacy Belongs To Google

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:01:30 EST
Streisand's house wasn't photographed from her property, but from the air above the ocean.
True, but a large part of the outrage against Google seems to be less about where the truck took the picture from and more about whether the picture shoul

wetkarma: Re: All Your Privacy Belongs To Google

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:57:58 EST
Without having the slightest intention of impugning your civil liberties cred, I nevertheless disagree.
Google trespassed onto the homeowners land in order to take the picture. Unlike in Streisand case where the photo was from public air space, they act

zyxwvutsr: Re: All Your Privacy Belongs To Google

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:26:13 EST

Most criticized Barbra Streisand when she tried to censor the pictures of her beachfront house that turned up online, but now that Google's out taking pictures and the house that might be photographed is theirs instead of hers, suddenly priv

port1080: Re: All Your Privacy Belongs To Google

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:47:23 EST
I think it's reasonably well known around here that I'm a pretty dedicated (civil) libertarian, so my take on this may or may not be surprising to some. I tend to side pretty strongly with Google on this one. First off - if the road wasn't post