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

[Jamon Camisso]

On September 26, 2007 10:59:58 am Scott Elcomb wrote:
> 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.
>
> Cory Doctorow's come up with a rather relevant tale, Scroogled[1].
> It's in this months' Radar Magazine under a Creative Commons
> license[2].
>
> It speaks to the Orwellian connection and prompted an interview with
> the Wall Street Journal[3].
>
> Interestingly, a Reuters news item[4] popped up on Google News
> (naturally) today regarding Street View in Canada.  As referred to in
> the article, the Canadian Privacy Minister has some issues[5] with
> Street View.
>
> Cities offering to pay Google for the "service" provides a bunch of
> incentive for them to work around these issues though.  It all feels a
> little spooky after reading Scroogled, but Doctorow provides some
> sanity in the WSJ interview.
>
> I have to wonder at what Ontario political parties think on topics
> like this -- they never become a public issue during elections.

Well, our Premiere is a Roman Catholic, and his major opposition seems to 
think that God should be paid a $400 million tithe/bribe for something or 
other--so maybe it's that their God is omnipresent and omnipotent, and 
therefore our petty privacy concerns are irrelevant...

Jamon
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