Hear-hearQuote:
Originally Posted by jt912
What most people think of as 'privacy' is only what you use the law to compel someone to respect
As for anything/everything else? --- well . . .
. . . everybody has a camera
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Hear-hearQuote:
Originally Posted by jt912
What most people think of as 'privacy' is only what you use the law to compel someone to respect
As for anything/everything else? --- well . . .
. . . everybody has a camera
.............
Photo doesn't look familiar.Quote:
Originally Posted by jt912
And no....I don't have a red Porsche.
My house is in the country and sits on over 1 acre....not in a box home community like the pic you posted with the red Porsche.
My Early S signature doesn't even have a location on it...does it?
My other concern besides Google showing your house (and how nice it could be) was the fact that there was one
of my kids in the pic.
With all the creeps in today's world, I don't like that info getting out there.
Bottom line, it should NOT be legal for a company to take pics of your personal "private" property and post it on
the web without your permission.
That's just what I call decency and right vs wrong.
Google does it for purely financial (greedy) reasons.
I have no problem with Google photographing public areas, restaurants, parks, etc.
But people's private property should be off limits.
For skin nerd and other over thinkers:
Thanks for the thoughts.Quote:
Originally Posted by ejboyd5
I'm of the opinion that sticking your head in the sand like an ostrich just doesn't make much sense either.
Just so you know....I don't worry or obsess about things like this.
I take action so I don't need to worry or obsess.
Then I can enjoy life all I want to at that point.
Agreed. Although that's the way it's done around here...Quote:
Originally Posted by skinnerd
Hhhh . . .
IMO --- privacy? . . . is about what I keep to myself
To put it Another Way . . .
. . . before you posted this --- how many people would 've even known this was you?
And how many now?
Nothing to do with Ostriches . . . more like magpies
;)
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Fortunately, I live in a gated community. We don't allow the press, GoogleEarth or unauthorized vendors through the gate. This keeps out the first level of riff-raff but not the professional thieves.
Google responded very quickly in my view. Now my entire home including the car, kids in the driveway is all blurred out.
Not going to point out names on this thread, but some responses were really uncalled for and unhelpful....but that's the day and age we live in I guess.
You can believe and say what you what, but at the end of the day, it's just not OK for a company like Google to be posting images of your private property
all over the internet without your consent. Happily they resolved my situation in a timely and satisfactory manner. Case closed.
My point of view as a retired IT guy, where part of my duties involved internet privacy and security is that @skinnerd's concern is valid. Google and other internet companies make billions by the unauthorized use of whatever personal info they can scavenge. Staying silent is almost as good as giving them permission.
I'm mildly surprised at how quickly Google dealt with it. Not that they acceded to the request, but the speed of the response. Better than I would have expected.
On the other hand, Google street view's potential privacy issues pales in comparison to what millions of people give away voluntarily on Facebook and the like...
Arne....I agree completely.
The amount of "data" that Google, Facebook, etc get for virtually free is staggering.
And then they turn around and sell it, our information and data....all of this without getting our permission or compensating us.
Most folks are pretty clueless about this....head in the sand as I said before.
People that go along with all this mindlessly will be just fine in the new authoritarian, serveilling society that is quietly growing up around us all.
Welcome to the "new world."