What to do? It's Google's Street View.

[Scott Elcomb]

On 6/1/07, Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> When George Orwell created Bigbrother who could have predicted how
> different it would turn out.  Between Google, and the pervasive presence
> of camera phones and web cams the citizens are now firmly doing the watching.
> Disturbing?  Yes, but it far better than Orwell's prediction.

Disturbing indeed.  I can go with better than Orwell's, but not much.
There's no turning back: - the public knows the technology is there,
and there will be those that abuse it.

Wired is running a contest about photos captured from Street View:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/request_for_urb.html

I voted robots.txt up.

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