Comments on: How Does Google’s New ‘Street View’ Get Illegal Pics?

By: monroe shocks

monroe shocks — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:03:39 +0000

Sure enough google may have some issues with privacy concerns. But there are various other websites hosting street views that get around this by focusing only on the buildings.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:53:47 +0000

I learned a good lesson about 15 years ago. My son and I went into a Taco Bell for an evening snack. There was a drunk in front of us arguing with the server that he didn’t want any chives on his taco. The server was arguing back that those were green garden onions and not chives. The drunk wasn’t convinced and the argument from the drunk got quite heated. I turned to my son and said, “let that be a lesson, never argue with someone in an altered state of mind.”

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:03:36 +0000

I don’t buy the car with the camera story, take a good look of key elements like digital clocks in banks, malls, city hall, check the time and temperature (sometimes different dates always same time), look at the position of the sun, all pictures appear to be taken about the same time of day (usually afternoon)can’t do that by driving around in camera cars
from my point of view this is a old water down version of some obsolete satellite image technology, I’m pretty sure the newest version can zoom in inside houses and buildings (watch out street dealers!)

By: Rajj

Rajj — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:23:21 +0000

wow this how to is quite interesting, so that’s how google is earning.. hmm

By: Sussane

Sussane — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:19:58 +0000

yah google street view is doing some illegal things which we should discourage..
http://itshumour.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-new-health-care-plan-from-humor.html

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:55:37 +0000

Molly, your answer is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

By: molly

molly — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:01:31 +0000

Where are the cameras, taking photos in my street on ‘Google Earth’?

By: PORKY

PORKY — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:25:46 +0000

the google battery tunnel is bad, but i live in nj & google satellite map will show the exact latitude & longitude of the huge hess refinery 2 miles from my work – thats a great idea!

By: camcorders

camcorders — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:52:32 +0000

If someone is going to stalk you then I’m sure they won’t be looking on google street to find you. They will be there in the street watching your house and following you around.

By: Gmo

Gmo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:41:37 +0000

i think that this is retarted everything… the street view the people getting mad at each other its just an image of the street house etc sure it makes creepers easier to operate but like i forget who said it exposes us and a wake up call btw ip adresses expose who you are as well so if u have a reallly good tracker/stalker he wont even need visual images to locate u so to be honest you can be tracked by your computer and or internet Ip so to worry about images that have another way to show where you are is such a waste…. cell phones are another good tool the list goes on hahaha so people just stop worrying about a little thing like images just think of it this way your a celeb on the web now

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:35:07 +0000

Doing an interview, having your picture taken, putting her real name on the original “spying cat” complaint- this does not sound like a woman concerned with privacy!

If she’s truly worried about the possibility of stalkers, then she shouldn’t have proceeded in engaging the media! Because becomming “known” as a public figure opens you up to public support, public dissent, and mentally unstable people who might “love” or hate you so much that they can’t help but come after you with a deadly weapon. It happens all the time, but considerably more so with public figures, and less with the general public.

Her fifteen minutes will expire, and she’ll widely be forgotten about by the general public.. except, perhaps by the people she’d most like to avoid.

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:58:45 +0000

The only thing that anyone has to worry about in their neighborhood is documentation of something that HAPPENED IN THE PAST. What’s there to worry about? A picture of you walking with your kids? SO?? The image isn’t immediately forwarded to predators in your area, in time for them to hunt you down!

And if you have a full-fledged stalker, trust that they won’t be satisfied looking at a pic taken whenever of your second story apartment. They’ll be camped out, watching you in real time. A grainy, dark pic of your cat isn’t gonna cut it.

If anything, the advent of street view is a wake-up call as to just how exposed people are to the world. If you live in a street-side apartment, you need to re-assess how much pivacy you actually have, and how much you want. Get those shades that open from the top down, or something, because people walking down the street can most likely see a lot better with their bare eyes than that low-resolution image.

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:53:23 +0000

The only people that have something to worry about are people who are frequenting places where they don’t wanna be caught. Maybe the cheating husband should park his car down the block rather than risk his suspecting girlfriend seeing it parked in her sister’s driveway on street view. But if she’s paranoid enough, and he’s stupid enough, she’ll drive by the house herself!

If the guy’s coming out of a strip club and happens to get his picture taken, then he’s just plain unlucky, or he’s a frequent flyer.

By: Gary Lesperance

Gary Lesperance — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:15:52 +0000

If you want to find out how Google gets all those pictures, the explanation is on Wikipedia. Checkk out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

By: Winter

Winter — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:07:18 +0000

They even have Area 51!!

By: Jonny Dade

Jonny Dade — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:25:53 +0000

This is pathetic, so you can see a few faces, a few number plates and a few other everyday occurances. People always go up in arms when the next big thing comes along, and funnily enough it’s usually the same people.

Bottom line is, if you want EVERY SINGLE FACE blurred out on google, then that’s just the same as wanting EVERY SINGLE FACE blurred out in the real world. somebody spotting you on a website is just the same as somebody spotting you walk past on your way to work. I’d say atleast 5,000 people see your face a day in the real world, whereas on google maps that figure would be more like 100 a day. Stop whining and shut up. If terrorists wanted to blow up new york they’d ave just as much luck with google street view as they would with a standard street map.

I wish you people would put things into context before you all start raising a fuss.

By: John

John — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:17:43 +0000

(bicycle riders)

By: John

John — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:17:26 +0000

Google street views are a great tool for bikers trying to map a safe ride (e.g. large shoulders) in a car-centered landscape. Keep up the good work, Google!

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:26:36 +0000

You people are kidding me, right? You sit here while our country in in a downward sprial and you are crying about streetview pics. Good lord trust me no terrorist are looking to attack us now. They see we are already falling, like the Roman Empire. Worry More about wha the Government is doing and less about what google is!!!!!!

By: amanda jose

amanda jose — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:33:14 +0000

Yes I feel I am being spied on. On google maps you can find me walking down the street pushing a stroller with my 3 kids.I am a little creeped out by that.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:27:20 +0000

My Lord thank you Brett V. I can’t recall when I have read a less intelligent and more psuedo-paranoia string of post. “Witness protection” “I have stalker” “rapes” & “court cases” I-G-N-O-R-A-N-C-E. Brett V. is 100% right, If I drove down the street and you were there would that be illegal. Everything is done from the road. Worry about the global warming not who is looking in your blinds.

By: Brett V

Brett V — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:44:13 +0000

Wow, is all I can say about the majority reaction here. True American ignorance shines it’s brightest on the internet. There’s so much concern over what can be viewed through these views… Yet they come from the street. If you’re doing actions that you don’t wish to be viewed from the streets then go ahead and close your curtains. If you’re doing compromising actions in your living room with the curtains open then that’s your fault if someone sees it. How is this technological step-up a horrible thing? I found it incredibly useful when traveling through a small town, to use for gaining some visual familiarity with my travel route. Google isn’t spying on your cat, you watching the television, or people sunbathing. They’re simply giving a view of a public area and whatever was viewable from that point at that time is published on the internet. If you want to virtually scream across the internet that your rights are being pillaged maybe you should have called your representative about the Patriot Act. Maybe you should show a little concern about people prying in your business from inside your house and not from the street where anyone with the ability to stand on a sidewalk can sit and stare at your cat all day. Get something real to be afraid about and save the world from your pathetic worries.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:21:31 +0000

I would like to know how to opt out of Google Street View. I have a stalker and I do NOT want them to have information on me, randomly taking photos (who takes them?!) when I might have my blinds open.

Doesn’t anyone see this as an invasion of privacy??? I see this as a huge invasion of privacy. The world of the internet, but most importantly, GOOGLE AND GOOGLE MAPS, AND GOOGLE STREET VIEW, IS RIFE WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF ABUSE.

By: Lance Morris

Lance Morris — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:07:05 +0000

I work for city gov and we are beginning the process of photo acquisition. We are wondering who Google buys there imagery from for Google Earth/Maps application. Does anyone out there know? If so would you please share that with me by replying to morrislg@owensboro.org

Thanks
Lance

By: Hairy Carrion

Hairy Carrion — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:40:35 +0000

Are you kidding me? War on terror? Post 911? Give me a break already? Propagandist b.s. and most of the u.s. has bought into the campaign. (Which is pretty darn effective, sadly.) There is no such thing as homeland security. Man, does no one read history or remember it?

Truth be known, I do know about a stalker in L.A. that did break in and hassle someone I know here, thanks to Google. Wee haw. Can you say Night Stalker? Summer of Sam? I smell another Spike Lee Joint coming on.

But the bigger question has yet to be answered, where the HELL are they getting the pics and how? And who gave the bastards permission to publish the images without consent?
This will be interesting in the courts. I wonder what will happen in the case of rape, stalker laws, and such. Google could be held accountable and liable, if at least financially.

Something perhaps worth pondering after our initial paranoia.