Google Says Complete Privacy Does Not Exist 543
schliz writes "In a submission to court, Google is arguing that in the modern world there can be no expectation of privacy. Google is being sued by a Pennsylvania couple after their home appeared on Google's Street View pages. The couple's house is on a private road clearly marked as private property." Here is our previous story about Google Street View privacy issues.
Re:More proof Google is evil (Score:0, Funny)
Re:more or less true, but . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Next time I see a Google van on my private roads, it will be greeted with a bazooka. On my lands, there can be "no expectation of safety."
Re:Wanted: addresses of Google employees (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wanted: addresses of Google employees (Score:2, Funny)
Leave Google alone!!
Re:more or less true, but . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Old man speaks up (Score:5, Funny)
I think I speak for many of us oldtimers when I say:
GOOGLE! GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!
Re:Trespassing (Score:5, Funny)
But it makes for some mighty polite Door-to-Door salesmen.
Re:Luddites (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Perhaps they should photograph around (Score:5, Funny)
It actually works the other way. The council I work for commissions the arial photography and sells it to google.
Mmmm, pictures of hot nude fonts...
Re:Fences, Gates and Guards.... (Score:2, Funny)
So, yes, there are exceptions, but that doesn't mean that Joe Random Individual can walk up my driveway to take photos of my backyard.
Tell that to Britney Spears.
Google's defense attorney... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Satellite Images (Score:4, Funny)
We'll have bigger problems to worry about, because physics will be broken.
Re:Fences, Gates and Guards.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Fences, Gates and Guards.... (Score:3, Funny)
Funny thing is, if they had just kept quiet this would be a non issue. How many people would be going onto google maps and looking at their specific spot on the planet. Now that they have raised a stink, people from all around the globe will consider visiting the famous "privacy" home. Their actions are like someone jumping up and down saying "Don't look at me, don;t look at me".
There's a name for this 'effect', but it escapes me at the moment....
Re:Fences, Gates and Guards.... (Score:0, Funny)
Yes, because the last thing I want is my utilities working properly.
Re:I hope they win (Score:4, Funny)
Announcing Google Home View!
Just click on a house to see pictures of the interior and it's occupants in the restroom!
Re:Fences, Gates and Guards.... (Score:3, Funny)
Worse, it means no internet.
Re:Luddites (Score:3, Funny)
Can you really be jailed for trespassing in America? If so, that's another notch on the twatometer.
Re:Luddites (Score:3, Funny)
Really? You think that it is a huge coincidence that since Google started this program, house prices all over the US have dropped considerably.
If I had mod points, I wouldn't know whether to mod you funny, or paranoid. I'm leaning toward funny.
(What do you mean, there is no longer a "paranoid" mod?!)
Re:Fences, Gates and Guards.... (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah well...when I was flying, we didn't have motors, or wings! We had to walk uphill, in the snow (important for the landing bit) to the edge of a cliff with nothing but a parachute, made of twine and burlap cloth, in case the feathers we were holding in our hands didnt work, AND WE LIKED IT.
Re:Fences, Gates and Guards.... (Score:5, Funny)
>> neighbourhood taking pictures of all the girls sunbathing topless in their own backyards
I'm sorry, which neighborhood was that again?
Re:Fences, Gates and Guards.... (Score:5, Funny)
How the hell are blue and green circles saying "This Image Hosted By Tripod" going to keep the Google Street Team off my land?