“Put your business on Google Maps”

“Display your ads on Google Maps”

Cheers!

Yes, I made a typo. It’s not the first and probably won’t be the last. I could point out the fact that you make typos on a daily. You couldn’t even get all the names and song titles correct in the Jammie Thomas playlist…

“I didn’t say anything about my picture being taken in public without my permission. I’m complaining in very general terms about Gargle publicly displaying for commercial purposes millions of images it took without asking first.”

And you accept advertising revenue and donations. The last I checked, that makes this site a commercial operation, unless you’ve gotten official government approval to register this site as a non-profit organziation. The fact that you may not be making any profit off it doesn’t change the fact that money still changes hands. Yet, you use photos of people all the time without their permission.

“You can come and take my picture any time you like, no worries. But if you, as a commercial company, are then going to use it as a draw to promote ‘product,’ you need to get my permission first.”

Not only is Street View 100% free to use, there isn’t a single ad anywhere on the page.

If you’re going to criticise, at least get it right. I didn’t say anything about my picture being taken in public without my permission. I’m complaining in very general terms about Gargle publicly displaying for commercial purposes millions of images it took without asking first.

You can come and take my picture any time you like, no worries. But if you, as a commercial company, are then going to use it as a draw to promote ‘product,’ you need to get my permission first.

Meanwhile, Switzerland isn’t alone wth clearly identifiable images being displayed. A little later, I’ll be doing a post on what’s happening in Canada.

… and here it is – http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29565

Cheers!

You think it’s wront that your picture was taken in public without your permission and yet you regularly still use photos with people in the background, even though you don’t have their written permission to do so.

Why is it alright for you to use people’s photos without permission? What makes you exempt from the rule you’ve been pushing for Google, ever since the first Street View Article?

Apparently it’s one of those rules that only applies to others. Or are you prepared to furnish written consent forms from everyone who has ever appeared in a photo on this site?

The girl with her finger in the guys face, the guy holding his head, She turns and walks away and he’s still standing there holding his head, then as they both head their separate ways she starts running and he’s still holding his head in disbelief. heh captured for eternity.

Friends and family of theirs would recognize them easy.