Google Streetview, where is our Privacy?

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  1. GTscoob

    GTscoob Black is Beautiful

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    So Blink just IMed me a pic of my own car parked in front of my house on google streetview, the newest addition to the Google Maps repertoir. Alex, your STI looks nice parked in front of your house too.

    I'm just surprised, because any other day the pic of our front yard would come with 8 dudes chilling on the porch smoking cigarettes.
     
    #1 GTscoob, Jun 19, 2008
  2. monk

    monk <b>The Kitchen Ninja!!!!</b>

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    Privacy? LOL... just wait it's about to get a lot more interesting in the next 10yrs
     
    #2 monk, Jun 19, 2008
  3. wrxin8or

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    #3 wrxin8or, Jun 19, 2008
  4. FTZ

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    Did you notice the person sitting on Alex's porch working on a laptop?
     
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  5. GTscoob

    GTscoob Black is Beautiful

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    This takes stalking my internet privacy professor to a whole new level. He flipped his shit when we used US military satellites to find a pic of him swimming in his pool, now we can find a much closer pic of his front yard . . .

    Sorry for the duplicate post, I didnt see this one earlier.
     
    #5 GTscoob, Jun 19, 2008
  6. Alex

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    Its all good. I am under the impression that you can request that it be removed.
     
    #6 Alex, Jun 19, 2008
  7. Matt

    Matt Think before you post
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    dude, the car look SWEET there!!
     
    #7 Matt, Jun 19, 2008
  8. nicad

    nicad Yes I am a troll

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    if you're in public or can be photographed from a public place you have no privacy :)
     
    #8 nicad, Jun 19, 2008
  9. Eco Auto Clean

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    ya that google street view is crazy...i wana see the car that's just driving around snapping photos!....its nuts!
     
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  10. Matt

    Matt Think before you post
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    It's a crappy cell phone pic (not mine, found it online) of one of the microsoft trucks. they are Tahoes with 19 or so cameras on them.

    [​IMG]
     
    #10 Matt, Jun 19, 2008
  11. nicad

    nicad Yes I am a troll

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    google uses little hybrid vehicles to take all their pictures
     
    #11 nicad, Jun 19, 2008
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    Could be worse. This could be you!
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  13. 5spdfrk

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    :naughty::rofl:
     
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  14. WJM

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    That's true.

    I guess I need to stop sitting at the window completely naked while posting on the internet.
     
    #14 WJM, Jun 19, 2008
  15. nicad

    nicad Yes I am a troll

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    i do it all the time. i sit in my office naked with the blinds open OOPS
     
    #15 nicad, Jun 19, 2008
  16. Kris

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    I'm sure your neighbors love the view
     
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  17. wileycoyote0022

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    #17 wileycoyote0022, Jun 19, 2008
  18. Kris

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    I was waiting for it.
     
    #18 Kris, Jun 19, 2008
  19. WJM

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    See, the thing is...in NC they dont drive thru and take pics like that...they'd get shot at.

    Where I live now you cant see anything past the trees...so I'm safe. *whew*

    :rofl:
     
    #19 WJM, Jun 19, 2008
  20. 5spdfrk

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    I didn't find anywhere in that article that the city is private, rather Google allegedly drove onto a road that had a "private property" sign and took pictures of a house located on this supposedly private road.
     
    #20 5spdfrk, Jun 19, 2008
  21. wileycoyote0022

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    The private city thing was something I heard or read. I just copied a link of the first search I found on it. I might have miss interpreted it, Ill see if I can find that article.
     
    #21 wileycoyote0022, Jun 20, 2008
  22. 5spdfrk

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    Yeh, if you find it again, post it up. I'd like to read it...sounds interesting.
     
    #22 5spdfrk, Jun 20, 2008
  23. Cool_____

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    No such thing as a private city.....if you can drive through it and view things freely then it's 'public'.
     
    #23 Cool_____, Jun 23, 2008
  24. wileycoyote0022

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    I probably read it all wrong, but I swore I thought I read something about that. Ohh well, my bad yall.
     
    #24 wileycoyote0022, Jun 23, 2008
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    Haha, their last name is Boring.
     
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  26. Matt

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    Franklin Park is NOT a private city....I'm from that area. Those people are MORONS!

    :)

    OMFG....this house is 5 minutes from where I grew up... :rofl:
     
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  27. Matt

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    #27 Matt, Jun 23, 2008
  28. dontcallitarex

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    "You mean you don't actually have to hang out in the bushes outside people's homes anymore? Cool."

    :rofl:
     
    #28 dontcallitarex, Jun 23, 2008
  29. Matt

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    oh, and apparently, the images have been taken down from google....
     
    #29 Matt, Jun 23, 2008
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