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Why are people fussing about it? do you live in a normally cordoned off street and don't allow passers-by to walk up it or something?
The Google car...
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I know a few people from over here who wouldnt like their number plates on show considering our past
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I know a few people from over here who wouldnt like their number plates on show considering our past
Surely they're blurred? Mine is.
There a quite a few numberplates (and faces) that they've forgotten to blur out.Surely they're blurred? Mine is.
My concern with the whole thing is that google isn't just some random passerby walking past, they are a commercial company taking pictures of my garden and through my windows and making them publicly available to the world. As a commerical company their are legal requirements on what private information they collect and what they do with it.
Not helped by them being arrogant and disingenious in pretending they don't understand what the fuss is about, and insisting they have the right to take pictures even when people ask them not too (e.g the Boring legal case)
Thought this was pretty funny -
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s....205519&spn=0.015669,0.050511&z=15&iwloc=addr
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s....205519&spn=0.015669,0.050511&z=15&iwloc=addr
surely that camera would get caught up on the height barrier you have to go through
My local one doesn't have a height barrier
Presumably it's only the ones where the drive through is covered by the roof.
How is that different from google maps satellite view? You can see far more what is in your garden and who has a bigger swimming pool...
Yes.
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Personally I don't understand what the fuss is about either. Anyone with a camera could do the same and you would be able to do bugger all about that.
They aren't taking pictures "through your windows".
Personally I don't understand what the fuss is about either. Anyone with a camera could do the same and you would be able to do bugger all about that.
They aren't taking pictures "through your windows".
...and at a much higher resolution as well, so people should quit their moaning.
For those who are interested this is now live:
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=21129
dont you also need to knock your house down and hide the rubble incase somone walking down the street sees it?
So does this mean street view has been updated today? I don't see any new places
Haha! For anyone from Nottingham, the mansfield road tranny made it on to google earth: http://bit.ly/7PbEN3
I know a few people from over here who wouldnt like their number plates on show considering our past
The same number plates that hundreds of people see everytime you drive your car?
I don't understand this irrational paranoia when it comes to protecting this 'privacy'... despite these private things being visible to literally anyone.