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Google’s Street View has been quite an attention puller over the past and we very recently covered up how it had been accused of attacking privacy and still getting a ‘go-green’ in UK. This time around we come across another report at ‘The Register’; which reveals how the very Googlish Street View is after the privacy of every individual; even its own executive.
We all know that the service takes a mere clicks to compile all the information about a place or a person (by that I mean his property etc) that can be used against the same individual (let’s keep it on the wrong side for now). The latest hoist had similarly compiled photos from Street View that revealed the license plate for Google’s Execs car.
Forget about every other information that is revealed; consider the amount of information that can be drilled out from the license number. Ken Boehm, Chairman of National Legal and Policy Center remarked:
There is no better evidence that individual privacy simply does not exist in Google’s world than by the chilling amount of detailed visual information Google now collects on all of us, information that any Internet user can now compile in a dossier in less than 30 minutes,
There was an interesting aspect highlighted by Boehm:
Perhaps in Google’s world, privacy does not exist, but in the real world, individual privacy is fundamentally important and is being chipped away bit by bit every day by companies like Google….
As I had said the very statement sounds flawed; and yes they said ‘complete privacy doesn’t exist’; so where does complete privacy end? The moment you step out of your closet? If that were so there shouldn’t be any law as such for those who place ‘hidden cameras’ in changing rooms and lavatories. Why ever think of taking actions against them and calling them un-ethical? Now I know that Google’s act is different but when a Giant goes haywire making such statements, you are actually tipping in an excuse for those who can utilize it for the un-ethical purposes.
Or maybe Google has plans to tackles this, entire issue. How? I guess the picture below is a fair enough answer (courtesy The Register).
