No Street View! Switzerland tells Google
p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Ordinary peope who don’t like Google’s Street View intrusions and the use of their homes for Google advertising have to suck it up.
Because as p2pnet has observed elsewhere, when you’re an 800-pound gorilla …
But Gargle says it’ll try to fix problems in Switzerland where Hans-Peter Thur, the country’s federal data protection and information commissioner (FDPIC), wants the feature removed, says InformationWeek.
Immediately.
Thuer says Gargle’s pictures violate Switzerland’s strict privacy laws, “by failing to obscure people’s identities on the mapping service, which offers detailed street-level images,” says the story, going on:
“Numerous faces and license numbers weren’t blurred or were done so inadequately,” said Thuer’s statement, adding that he “demands that Google Inc. immediately take its Google Street View online service off the Internet” until it can ensure that public images respect Swiss law.”
Since 2007, Street View Snoopmobiles have invaded more than 100 locations around the world.
But the company has, “faced privacy complaints from many individuals and institutions that have been photographed,” says the story.
That’s correct. Gargoyle Snoop-O-Rama cameras even cruised p2pnet’s luxurious rural headquarters on Vancouver Island, BC.
For us, it’s simple. We don’t want giant online advertising company Gloogle using pix of our home in any way, shape or form for any reason whatsoever.
Period.
Especially since they didn’t bother to ask if they could in the first place.
Over in Switzerland, Googlers met with data protection officials to, “discuss how the service can be made compliant with Swiss law,” says InformationWeek.
“We have had a good exchange of views and we look forward to any further discussions to demonstrate our industry leading tools to protect users’ privacy,” it has a pokesperson claiming.
But Google isn’t only invading people’s home territories.
GooCycles (pronounced ‘goosyckles’) with 8-foot-high camera mounts were, “rolling around the pedestrian walkways of the University of Pennsylvania to collect panoramic images of the campus for Google Maps’ Street View feature,” said eSchool News recently, going on:
“Officials say the photos of Penn’s tree-lined Locust Walk mall and other places will allow prospective students and their parents to get a good feel for the campus, give incoming students a way to map out the best route to their classes — and let alumni fondly remember their school days.”
Riiiiight.
No need to stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
800-pound gorilla – Google Street View Canada invasion, June 18, 2009
InformationWeek – Google Fights Street View Ban In Switzerland, August 24, 2009
luxurious rural headquarters – Google SnoopMobile invades p2pnet turf, June 16, 2009
GooCycles – Google three-wheel school invasion, June 23, 2009
eSchool News – Google Maps snaps views from college campuses, June 22, 2009
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August 25th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
You know what John? I am SO tired of your constant whining moaning and complaining. Your whole object on P2PNet seems to be to make legal efforts by legal companies to make a profit seem wrong.
Get over it. You live in a market economy.
August 25th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
@ RW:
p2pnet is a personal site and on it I, and other people, can say whatever they like about whatever they like.
Get over it. You’re in an online world where freedom of expression rules.
Cheers!
August 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
RW seems to like the idea of selling and profiting off of peoples privacy under the illusion of free.
yet the RW above hides behind privacy.
Maybe the RW will post his real name and address so we can all look on google maps at the low income housing he lives in (which of course he will deny) and then we can make fun of his choice to give-up his privacy for google to profit off of.
Another moron came mad, and I guess another moron will leave mad. Adios.
August 25th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I’m so tired of people who label others “whiners” or “complainers” just for thinking and questioning something.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
You know, I started thinking that all these people who come up and down my street every day are invading my privacy by looking at my house and property. So, I think I’m going to hire some large guys to help me and start catching and blinding everyone who comes down this street without permission. I can’t take the chance that just anyone will walk or drive down this street and invade my provacy by looking at my house, so the only sure way to avoid this is to blind everyone who looks at it. I just can’t figure which would be efficient, some type of caustic chemical that can be sprayed in their eyes, or actually taking the time to poke each person’s eyes out with a hot iron. Any thoughts on which would work better?
After all, I can’t let this blatant, daily intrusion of my privacy by people looking at my house, continue, can I?
August 26th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Filming you and whats around you is quite different than someone driving up and down the street. But I’m sure you are aware of your own backward way of thinking and rhetoric.
Also, there is no provision for you to have these films removed. Once on American soil you have no rights. Even google said they will keep it as long as they want.
Why should I give up my rights because you want to?
August 27th, 2009 at 10:06 am
“Why should I give up my rights because you want to?”
Does your property have a big, black curtain around it?
Do you wear a mask in public, like Michael Jackson?
Or do you have a giant box with eye holes cut in it so that nobody can see you at all?