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Group: sci.astro · Group Profile
Author: MarshallMarshall Date: Sep 30, 2007 11:49
On Sep 30, 11:37 am, "Dave L. Renfro" cmich.edu> wrote:>
> I didn't know much about this so I googled for the
> site. As far as I can tell, it's only in 9 locations
> in the U.S. (and all but 2 are in coastal areas) and
> nowhere outside the U.S. I'd hardly say this is
> "all streets", or even more than a very extremely tiny
> fraction of all streets (even in the U.S.). And even
> if it were all streets in the U.S., if the cameras
> are only confined to street locations, no one is
> going to be able to see into your home window unless
> your house is right up on the street (or pretty close,
> with a very short driveway).
My understanding is that the pictures are taken by
a van driving around on the street. So you don't see
anything that you couldn't see while driving in your car.
Clearly this is not a "privacy" issue at all because
the camera only goes into public places. But perhaps
we need some other term, not yet invented, to explain
the disquiet we sometimes feel about information we expect
to be ephemeral becoming permanently recorded.
It's important that we not use the word "privacy" for this
because that confuses the debate IMHO.
Marshall
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