Smile, you’re on Google
Photo via guiabuscadores.com
Beware the black van with panoramic cameras or you could end up in some mashup for all to see like this one.
Google’s new addition of street view to Google Maps adds a whole new dimension by weaving photographs into seamless panoramas. Google used a fleet of vans equipped with special cameras to amass 360-degree imagery of major US cities during the past several months and said it planned to add more urban areas to the Street View menu.
“With Street View users can virtually walk the streets of a city, check out a restaurant before arriving, and even zoom in on bus stops and street signs to make travel plans,” Google said on its website.
But some privacy advocates are accusing Google of breaking its “Don’t be Evil” code.
With street view you can see pictures of men urinating street side, college girls in skimpy swimsuits sunbathing near Stanford University, a man climbing a home’s security gate, and people going into a pornography shop. One couple can be seen necking on a sidewalk while another couple gets “busy” on a bus stop bench.
This post was written by: Kim Mickelsen
June 9th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Google just received the lowest possible grade in security for how it handles personal information about its users.
Privacy International issued a report A Race to the Bottom: Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies ranking the best and worst of companies on the Internet.