Your Privacy Is On Stake Now
With Google entering your street with Google Map Street View raises concern over public privacy. Google’s Street View Car is moving in streets with 360-degree camera on its roof. It’s been couple of year google doing it but I raise this issue today as there is one very serious incident that has occurred in a Buckinghamshire village where mob thwarts Google Street View car.
TimesOnline Reports:
A spate of burglaries in a Buckinghamshire village had already put residents on the alert for any suspicious vehicles. So when the Google Street View car trundled towards Broughton with a 360-degree camera on its roof, villagers sprang into action. Forming a human chain to stop it, they harangued the driver about the “invasion of privacy”, adding that the images that Google planned to put online could be used by burglars. As police made their way to the stand-off, the Google car yielded to the villagers. For now, Broughton remains off the internet search engine’s mapping service.
This is all very sad. If you ask me I think there is no harm if google record your street view with its 360 Degree Camera and load it on Maps for the whole world to view it.
Do you think your privacy is really on stake with google starting services like Earth, Maps, and Street View? Do you really think it’s a threat to a national security or to a small village for that matter?
Now see what this guy has to say;
“This is an affluent area. 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.”
It’s an interesting debate; I would like to see your take on this. Please comment below.
Street View
Coin always has two sides –
As a tourist may be street view will help but at the same time burglary is a serious problem.
The question :
Law exist but burglaries, stealing, cheating etc. etc. happens. Does that mean we should stop law existence.
NO. Never.
If street view is helpful for the larger section of the society we should not worry about problems and try to take corrective/security measures.
I support – street view.
Think about it !
That’s a clear view of the street. I couldn’t disagree more why Google is doing this. It should be enough with Google Maps, but the Street Maps is taking the residents into risks.
Oh my god, Shanker. It sounds a little bit horrible to me, as I might be spying or observed by somebody through the computer and it did really make me uncomfortable indeed!
It’s good for SEARCHERS, but not SEARCHEES
-Mike
I really don’t think burglars would use google street view to case houses…I just don’t really see that as being logical since they could get a better view just driving or walking by. I think blaming google street view for an increase in burglaries is just blind paranoia towards technology.
Additionally, any average joe could swing by your house and take a photo of it from outside and post it on their blog. I find nothing wrong with that. Obviously Google is doing it on a massive scale but I don’t think I could draw a distinctive enough line between the two.