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8 commentsThursday, July 31, 2008

Google Scoffs At Complete Privacy

Company responds to Street View photo lawsuit

7 Comments

By used acura rsx (WPN reader) - Fri, 04/03/2009 - 16:58

In Google's opinion being

In Google's opinion being able to see the front of a house from a driveway tosses away any claim at having one's privacy violated. The Borings sued Google in April over photos a Google Street View camera car took from the street, which the Borings claim is a marked, private road.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sun, 08/03/2008 - 23:53

Meh... Google sucks anyways

By Godhammer (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/31/2008 - 18:49

Not getting the comment auto-hopping in Firefox

re: "[c]omplete privacy does not exist in this world except in a desert, and anyone who is not a hermit must expect and endure the ordinary incidents of the community life of which he [or she] is a part."

The spy satellites (USA) looking merrily on swathes of the Sahara for terrorist activity must have a better privacy policy than I would have thought.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/31/2008 - 15:07

Tu Quoque

Like the 'Jack and Gill' arguement and 'Google came tumbling after'.
Not to respect privacy because other people don't isn't much of an arguement.

Google is investing too much money in doing silly things.

When people say they don't like or want something, they don't. If they do, they do.
If the don'ts outweight the do's, Google should pay attention, respect people's rights and butt out.

Looking for others to justify behaviour is not the attiude of mature or responisble company.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/31/2008 - 14:40

I Agree

A person comes to the page to read the article, then if they choose to they can comment. You shouldn't try to force comments before the user even has a chance to read the article. I tried to send this article to my boss but with all the SQL injection attacks we have seen recently that plant an IFrame and forward you to a page to download a virus as soon as she realized it was redirecting her she closed the page. This is in really bad form and this will lose you alot of current readers and possibly make potential new readers think twice before returning to your site.

Not to mention I got my copy of your news letter today and it was FULL of dead links. I had to work hard to find the stories you are offering me. That shouldnt be.

Thanks for the great work but you should really think about changing both the forwarding practice and your QC on the news letter.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/31/2008 - 11:07