September 25, 2007
Google’s Street View coming to Edmonton?
The Edmonton Journal today reports that a black Honda Civic bearing the Google logo, and equipped with a roof-mounted camera, has been seen twice in the south Edmonton neighbourhood of Pleasantview. It has been spotted driving about 10 kilometers an hour. Google declined comment.
This news comes on the heals of Google backing down, and agreeing to comply with Canadian privacy laws that prohibit companies from exposing personal information without prior consent. Google now says they will blur faces and license plates. Whether Google already has the ability to do so, or if it means Google now has to go back to the drawing board to allow for the blurring is unknown.
This could add fuel to the fire in the U.S. where Google does not have similar laws to follow, and thus, leaves faces in a recognizable state. Many Americans have already complained about this invasion of policy, loud enough to force the company to adjust its policies, making it easier for individuals to request the removal of specific pictures that identify themselves.
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My husband, son, niece etc. are all for it. For the street view pictures and films. This way people who lost contact can find each other.
We are e.g. searching for a person in England’s southeast and would be more than glad to find him via such means. Somebody may have seen your loved one and can direct you to his/her whereabouts.
Please, fight for the right to show these pictures.
We are against governmental organisations to have access to make such pictures (they do in England at every street corner) and use them in a Big Brother fashion.
Little Brother is great, n o t Nig Brother.
Yours truly,
RO
Our whole family thinks Street View is great.
Keep up the good works Google.