Pics...
Didn't they get some pics of the culprits?
Channel islanders attack Street View car
Two of Google's Street View cars have been vandalised on the Channel Island of Guernsey. The camera-cars were on their second visit to the island. They were originally due in May but were delayed by the discovery that the cars were slurping up data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks, the BBC reports. The cars had their tyres …
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Friday 24th September 2010 13:19 GMT Anonymous Coward
Sark
Would the inhabitants of Sark let google on?
If they don't, I expect an article in the Telegraph denouncing the inhabitants for their medieval feudal outlook in failing to embrace the modern world.
If on the other hand, they do, I expect an article in the Telegraph denouncing the inhabitants for failing to respect privacy concerns.
confused? look up Barclay brothers...
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Friday 24th September 2010 21:30 GMT Martin Usher
Idiots abound
I think of the privacy concerns as just potential competitors stoking the fires of ignorance. Street View is a very useful capability, it makes visiting an unfamiliar place a whole lot easier, and its given Google quite an edge over other mapping services. Instead of competition we're getting people trying to drag the service down by raising all sorts of spurious arguments -- and the worst part of it is that people who should know better are buying into them ("slurping wifi addresses", indeed.. Reg, you should know better).
Has anyone noticed the irony of how "privacy concerns" are apparently paramount in a society that tolerates 24/7 monitoring of their activities using all sorts of tools -- including live video?
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Monday 27th September 2010 10:21 GMT Daggersedge
Pity they didn't show such spirit in the WW2
They let the Germans walk right over them then. Turned in allied soldiers to them and everything. Not to mention that the girls - the Jerry bags as they were known then - slept with all the German soldiers.
Of course, some - who know how many - of them are descendants of the German occupiers themselves, so that may explain their spirited actions.
Paris, because she knows what occupations are about...
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Monday 27th September 2010 10:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
Nothing Wrong?
So you see nothing wrong at all with creating a catalogue of every building in the world, with pictures, that anyone can access? Fortunately for society, plenty of other people do see problems, and eventually the runaway evil empire of Google will get reigned in, at least a little, hopefully sooner rather than later. The information land-grab that they have gone on is terrifying. The land-grab they did on books alone is terrifying to anyone who has read 1984.
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Monday 27th September 2010 10:27 GMT heyrick
@ Martin Usher
The way I see it, it is okay for THEM [*] to watch us, but God forbid we (or some foreign corporation) have access to that kind of technology.
If the Googlemobile fancies coming my way, kindly send me a Google t-shirt beforehand and I'll come out and take pictures of it taking pictures of me. A set of photos of a slice in time (of a place barely even on the map) is a whole lot less worrisome to me than automated numberplate tracking, internet packet snooping, and all of the other things which don't get much publicity but are privacy menaces all the same. I mean, who cares what colour my front door is? Who cares if we drive to Tours and don't take the motorway? Who cares if I spend boring rainy weekends with nothing on TV searching the 'net for pictures of cute Asians. So long as we obey the laws and don't act in an immoral manner, we aren't a threat to anybody. So why does it increasingly feel like somebody things we are? All of us...
* - I'll leave it up to the tinfoil hat bridge to come up with suggestions of who exactly "them" may be.
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