English Villagers Block Google Contractor From Taking Pictures for Street View
Friday, April 03, 2009 AP
April 3: Photo shows one of Google Earth�s street mapping cars. You're never far from a camera in Britain, a country that has accepted the presence of millions of surveillance cameras in its streets, shopping centers and public spaces. But for the villagers of Broughton in southern England, the roving eye of Google was one camera too far.
LONDON —AP "Britain has lots of surveillance cameras keeping watch on its streets, but for the villagers of Broughton, the roving eye of Google was one camera too far.
A gaggle of residents in the affluent hamlet in southern England formed a human chain to turn away a car shooting images for Google Street View. That's the popular service that allows Internet users to see high-quality photos of houses and streets around the world.
Broughton's resistance is the latest sign of concern about the collection of vast amounts of data from satellite photos on Google Earth to the searches performed by Internet users and the shopping habits of e-mail users.
The local police force confirms it was called to the village Wednesday by reports of a dispute between a crowd of people and a Google Street View contractor they felt was intruding on their privacy."
The question of privacy in this circumstance is rather knotty. The fact is that there is much that must be left to interpretation. Anyone can drive up a public street and take a picture. The intrusion part must come out of how the picture is used. If the pictures are used to find out shopping habits of inhabitants of that street, since shopping habits don't show on a street picture, one has to assume that more than the picture is being used. The address itself is being used by someone who was not given a signed informed consent to match statistics stolen from computers, store them anywhere unknown to the people from whom they originate. With all the technological advances in the past few years, concepts of privacy invasion have to be rethought and laws rewritten.
When our own government ignores the Constitution and laws already written, when the Internet can not easily be policed, when companies are making huge profits from selling personal information to companies, marketers and others we may not know about as average citizens, the average person has seen their privacy slowly eroded and compromised for some time now. The question as to whether we could ever get it back while there are companies who have data bases on almost everyone in the country who has ever voted, bought anything, filed for a social security card, obtained a driver's license, a professional license or certification, a diploma, a marriage license, or any of the additional vast number or bits of information easily found and stored these days.
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