Google Street View

[Dipso]

There are new calls for Google Street View to be shut down:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7959362.stm

I thought this was interesting:

Since Street View launched in the UK on 19 March, PI has been contacted by many people identifiable via the service. Among them were a woman who had moved house to escape a violent partner but who was recognisable outside her new home on Street View.

Not everyone who doesn't want to be identified has done something wrong...

[patrick]

I absolutely love StreetView. The minor press kerfuff over privacy will fade once people realize how ...

...many government spy cough "safety" cough cameras are lining each street already anyway.

[One of the crowd]

Is this the shop where it all started?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sourceid= ... 7499999996

[Patrick Bateman]

Is this the shop where it all started?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sourceid= ... 7499999996

I don't know. Is there a public urinal outside it?

[loveetc]

Is this the shop where it all started?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sourceid= ... 7499999996

Apparently the actual shop no longer exists. I read this thread on Popjustice's twitter yesterday:

Going down Kings Road on the bus. Does anyone know where this so-called 'electronics shop' PSB met in was?
9:32 AM Mar 26th from Tweetie

To clarify I know it's not there any more but what is it now? Good God this bus is taking forever. I want to cry
9:39 AM Mar 26th from Tweetie

It could've happened here. http://twitpic.com/2gj1m
9:44 AM Mar 26th from Tweetie

To which @petshopboys replies:

But it didn't. It was further up the Kings Road on the other side.
10:25 AM Mar 26th from Tweetie in reply to popjustice

[TheGhostOfMyself]

Google say that anyone who doesn't wish to be seen on Streetview can ask to be removed.

Can they explain how I can find every instance of me on their service when I have no idea when or where their photographs were taken?

[Boring]

StevePSB when your back at work I'll pop in for a refund £34.00 for a bloody wing mirror and Hillfields is ok in the day light.

If you think £34.00 for a mirror is dear then you've got no idea. I don't know what you've bought, but on certain BMW models the glass alone is over £200.


StevePSB

BMW's windscreens are made of an advanced technology that is very expensive to produce and is limited to their models. What is this called? Errr.... I'm sure I can remember it.... mmmm... crystal?

[glennjridge]

I hate to break it to those who are against google earth. they better brace themselves because the natural progression will be alot worse.

cant you just see how it will go? first all you had was map quest style to and from maps. then came google earth with zooming in pictures. then came google streetview where you could zoom in to the actual street and sort of click your way down streets.

it totally makes sense the coming years there will be a way to actually walk in real time own streets in virtual reality and even enter certain buildings and supermarkets and see if what you want is there before you actually go there.

[Pani]

Yes, next time they're zooming into your house and bedroom and everyone
can see you sleeping or doing whatever.

[glennjridge]

well obviously it would be for places, or stores or businesses that would use it to drum up business.thats sure to be the natural progression. if you can zoom in to street level,virtual tours of certain stores/builings is next.

[gregf]

My mobility is limited and if going somewhere,
I need to plan out...how many steps...how far to walk,
and avoid worrying about it all before hand.

So Google street view is great. I can just look up the address
and work out my plan, with much less worry. Brilliant.

[Radiophonic]

Yes, next time they're zooming into your house and bedroom and everyone
can see you sleeping or doing whatever.

Just sleeping in my case, then.

[Blogo]

Yes, next time they're zooming into your house and bedroom and everyone
can see you sleeping or doing whatever.

Just sleeping in my case, then.

*Oh Christ, they're gonna see my EraZurE collection*