Comments on: Google Earth and Your Privacy https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:13:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Kay https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6133 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:13:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6133 Mr. Mom…It does get worse. In the town that my friend lives you can travel through the neighborhood at street level. Unfortunately, the picture of his home features his 14 year old daughter watering flowers in the front yard in a bikini. I can completely understand his outrage. I would feel the same way if my kids were displayed in this way.

]]> By: Reginald Selkirk https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6132 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:58:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6132

Streisand effect
The Streisand effect is a phenomenon on the Internet where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized…

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6131 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:21:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6131 Just for balance, the couple who are suing are objecting to Street View, not Google Earth, and are objecting to pictures taken on a road labeled private. Of course, they apparently didn’t ask Google to take down the pictures before suing.

]]> By: Mr.Mom https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6130 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:16:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6130 Here we go, some ignorant dumbasses are gonna throw a hissy fit a riun an awsome learning too like google earth. Just because the world can see a picture of them trying to sell their dirty underwear on the lawn. Sometimes I really hate Americans.

]]> By: Julie Stahlhut https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6129 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:44:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6129 Those poor Pittsburgh folks are also cursed with the surname “Boring”, so that numerous news sources from as far away as the Antipodes ran the story under the headline, “Boring Couple Sue Google Over Photos.”http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4468527a28.html

]]> By: thadd https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6128 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:23:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/07/google-earth-and-your-privacy/#comment-6128 My understanding of it is that google isn’t even the group responsible for the imagery.I am also surprised that the yard sale was big enough to show up as any more that a bit of a light blur on the front lawn.

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