http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10546856
There’s only one way to be sure that you won’t be seen in public: don’t go out. And that constitutes a complete answer to the privacy geeks who lament that Google Street View, which went online in New Zealand this week, is a dangerous invasion of our privacy.
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They’re a few years too late. Google Earth, active for some years, has allowed anyone with a decent PC to inspect aerial views of your backyard much more up-to-date than those that will be loaded biennially by Street View. And it seems a bit silly to get uptight about a static image of a moment in time on your street that would be visible, in much higher-definition and in real time, to anyone driving by.
It’s called Street View for a reason. The camera isn’t coming down your drive, up the steps and into the kitchen. When it does, it will be called reality television. Now there’s an idea whose time has come.
I for one accept that privacy is a word of the 20th century and not the 21st and that is why I don’t care about what is transparent to the world, I am me and the world has to live with that.
