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Google Street View is in more trouble

By Nick Farrell
13 August 2008 07:24AM
Tags: google | street | view | trouble

Google Street View is getting into more hot water over privacy matters as its cars drive around the world snapping various things at street level.

Already the service has snapped punters visiting ladies of easy virtue in Thailand and a comatose man sleeping off his grief over a friend's death.

Now it seems to have driven past a burning house on Eagle Point Drive in Sherwood, Arkansas.

After the picture started to show across the web, Google Maps pulled the picture.

However, as Valleywag pointed out, it is surprising that the drivers in the Google Street View car making the rounds in the area not only kept driving past the burning home, but took the assigned pictures without thinking there might be a few problems.

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Comments: 2
If you were to bother looking around you would have seen that the fire dept was already attending (you can see the trucks in the side street), so what could the guy in the google car do? People almost seem to think that drivers of the google car are like law enforcement and must stop to attend to burning buildings and accidents etc.

Also, all pictures would be taken automatically. Could you imagine the google driver going around manually clicking the shutter on the cameras every time he thought it was "safe" to take a picture?
iTnews - comments icon Posted by WarrenAug 14, 2008 3:57 PM
So ...what's the problem again? I see nothing wrong with taking photos of something that IS OUT IN PUBLIC.

People are morons.
iTnews - comments icon Posted by CorsairAug 15, 2008 2:46 PM
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