04-08-2010, 05:32 PM
There are mundane and geopolitical implications:
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z0vehf2SWJ
Anybody know how to withdraw permission for Google to make images of your home/street available on Google Earth?
Quote:Serial lead thief who used Google Earth to identify historic buildings is jailed
A serial thief has been jailed for stealing £100,000 worth of lead from historic buildings he pinpointed using Google Earth.
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Campaigners Privacy International launched a formal complaint with the Information Commissioner to close down Street View temporarily while a full investigation was carried out.
As a result of Berge's case, they are also focusing their attention on Google Earth, for which, unlike Street View, there is no established way for householders to opt out and have images of their property removed.
Privacy International director Simon Davies said: 'Google needs to work quickly before there is a repetition of this problem because it could very well be the first of many.'
A Google spokesman said: ' Criminals use getaway cars but you don't blame the car-maker. The benefits of this technology far outweigh the small number of people who might misuse it.'
The Information Commissioner's office declined to comment.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z0vehf2SWJ
Anybody know how to withdraw permission for Google to make images of your home/street available on Google Earth?
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war