Google's "Street View" Brings World To Grand Rapid's Door, page 1

Google's "Street View" Brings World To GR's Door

blog.mlive.com

GRAND RAPIDS -- As the "Google Maps" car with the roof-mounted, 360-degree digital camera passed Duke's Bar on Michigan Street NE last fall, a man was standing in the doorway.

He wore light blue shorts, but his back was turned to the camera.

Now, anybody with Internet access can see him standing there as they travel the virtual streets of Grand Rapids and its suburbs. Viewers might also notice the churchgoers heading into Immanuel Lutheran Church on Michigan Street. Or they can spot cars.

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Related News Links:
maps.google.com
mashable.com
en.wikipedia.org
streetviewgallery.corank.com

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[edit on 11-8-2008 by SpartanKingLeonidas]

I was talking to a friend in Australia earlier tonight, and she asked what I thought of Google Maps showing her front door, and I thought she was referring to Google Earth, which as we all know shows the tops of your roof as well as your vehicles. She suggested that I punch in her address into the Australia Google Maps link I provided below, and needless to say, I was stunned at the detail and clarity of the pictures and the total 100% loss of privacy this shows.

Google Maps : Street Views : America

If you know an Australian, send them this link and ask them what they thing of this invasion of privacy.

Google Maps : Street Views : Australia

It does not just stop there though. Through our continued conversation, she says that they send people around to take the pictures that allow this kind of thing to be done with this level of clarity and again I was shocked as Hell. I asked for her for a website link to a story, and she found it and I'm supplying it to you here.

blog.mlive.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

This refereshed my memory of The Unabomber when I read a book which mentioned him threatening an author of a book, David Gelernter, author of "Mirror Worlds" by sending him a bomb.

Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean

I didn't know this has been discussed until after submitting it, but I didn't see a Breaking Alternative News link either, and the story is from yesterday.

Google Street Views


Google Street Views : Girl Living Outside For Thesis


Google Street Views : Surveillance Car


[edit on 11-8-2008 by SpartanKingLeonidas]

I just posted this Breaking Alternative News thread in the thread below :

Ghost Recon Game Foreshadows Russian War Perfectly!

It relates to it in an unusual way.

This Mayor in West Helena, Arkansas has enacted a curfew similar to Martial Law.

Arkansas Town in Lockdown

It's relevant to this Breaking Alternative News submission because it could be done in conjunction with the Google Street Views, when and if these cameras are mounted on Police Cruisers, Ambulances, and Fire Department vehicles, and working in tandem with a curfew, or enacting Martial Law at night, and then this transitioning to a live daytime surveillance system.

Welcome to the United States of Survelliance and Martial Law.

reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas

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Oh man this really p****s me off !!!! Thanks for posting it.

I just punched in my address, saw my car in front of my house, my front porch, my windows, i mean clearly, detailed like i was standing outside I do not like this one bit !!!!! Is that even legal ?

It's only gonna get much worse ! I'm in Chicago and it seems our illustrious mayor is planning on allowing any member of the private sector that is willing, to link their surveilance cameras up to the city's. which means that the city will be watching people whenever, whereever they want without the people even being aware of it. I mean at least as it stands now you know when you're in front of a city camera , but if he's allowed to do this you will have no idea when they're watching you. Right now if your nieghbor has a surveilance camera on his property you can pretty much bet it's just what it seems, he's watching his property. But if Daley succeeds with his plan your nieghbor's camera may just be broadcasting everything you do in your yard to the city.

reply to post by chise61

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If you've seen "The Dark Knight", the current and new Batman, there's a series of scenes where everyones cell phones in Gotham are simultaneously turned on in conjunction to act as a sonar, and this is similar to it in a sense, just a different piece of electronics being used. This would be surveillance on steroids, just like the Google Street Views.

[edit on 11-8-2008 by SpartanKingLeonidas]

reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas

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Haha, your arguments, all of them; null and void.

The resolution of the photographs is low enough to make it difficult, or impossible, to make out license plates. They've blurred faces. And, anybody who believes they've been captured in an embarrassing situation can request their image, or even their home, be removed.

You are crazy, sorry.



Also, Google does not profit off of streetview, sorry. Don't give me the Google ads line either, because they are everywhere. Even on ATS. Terrible logic.



Good luck winning that suit though, have fun champ.



Fear monger.

reply to post by wolfmanjack

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Christ alive, another rational thinker. Starred, and I honestly wish I could give you a thousand.

Your fear and wringing of hands would be far better spent in this thread, which chronicles events which may threaten Life As We Know It, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb.

reply to post by forsakenwayfarer

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I'm going to agree with you on this. If I recall correctly the law states that anywhere where you shouldn't expect a certain degree of privacy is fair game for photographs to be taken. When a car is driving on a public road and taking pictures from that public road, it's legal.

They also do offer a means of having an unwanted photo removed if needed so I think they're being quite responsible with this.

The way most of you are looking at it is as if they're setting up surveillance of your homes 24/7. In reality, I doubt that any of these photo's will be updated for at least another decade, if ever at all.

I would also like to point out, that if someone is looking to obtain your information, there are many methods of doing so, and having a photo of your home or car, does not really give anyone much to work with.

Personally I like what Google is doing with this, not only is it a neat feature to be able to browse places you've never been to, but it's also a good navigational tool if traveling somewhere unknown because certain things that you see in some of these photos could be used as visual land marks.


EDIT: wolfmanjack beat me to it by about 20 minutes, I had the page open for a while before making my post. Grrr!


[edit on 13-8-2008 by InSanE1]

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