Please. If you're doing something illegal, inappropriate, or something in completely bad taste in plain sight of the road then who are you to complain. Did you know that when TV crews are filming in public places, they could immortalize you picking your nose in the background of the 6 o'clock news?
A comment on a random blog (this link, comment by "Dr.Zoinkelstein")
"It isn't shocking, but I challenge you to find a better solution for taking live photos of cities that can balance interests of consideration against those of practicality. Tell a neighborhood you are showing up to immortalize it (for a few months) and the advertising, slander, inappropriate nudity, etc... comes out of the wood works. In truth, they probably should exhibit some better manners in notifying sensitive places (abortions centers) about such things, but no one said that digitizing images was going to be antiseptic.
In any case, at the end of the day, Google is still providing pioneering free and useful services and is in my opinion, the most outrageously ethical corporation that has ever been in the fortune 500. It isn't a perfect corporation, and I will be curious to see if it can maintain its culture and ethics as it expands past 15, 20 and 30 thousand employees, but it is a cultural experiment in corporate and profit structure that usually meets with more condemnation than it deserves."
Should you not go to an abortion clinic because they have protesters (most of them do by the way) or the porno theatre because your likeness might be captured by a passing Google Street View cam (once every three months estimated)? I don't know, but living life like there is no surveillance or nosy people is a happier life then constantly being worried.
And at least you can request to remove an unflattering picture right on the page. Giving you a way out, even through they have legal ground to keep it up without your permission? Sounds very not-evil to me.
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Yeah -- if you're out in public, they might take your picture. Get over it. It isn't bad. Please -- people should live their lives in an open manner. It isn't being used for commercial purposes or legal purposes.
Well, it is being used for commercial purposes, but its not in any way a source of income for Google. My favorite was the NY Times article how the lady was angry how you could look right into her window. From the street. Imagine that, being able to look right into your house when your blinds are open. Who would've thunk it.
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