Google getting it in the neck again

Wow, another piece of fine journalism with from the Daily Mail.

Had to laugh at it mind.
 
Broughtons not a "bad area" but if I were a thief there are "other area's" in MK that
I would target first :D
coupled with that 3 burglaries so far? and before google had mapped
the area ? What ever next :eek:
 
wow, lucky the tog didnt wait round, could have got the pics of all of the villagers being arrested:D
 
Who fancies a huge TP meet in Broughton?!?! That'll go down well! :D Although I don't want to think about what's going to happen when residents try telling the togs what their rights to photograph are.........!
 
How dare one of the residents take a picture of that mans car without consent :p

Do these people really have nothing better to do with their time?

EDIT: Count me in for the meet. Shall we take our crack team of TP Lawyers too?
 
Street View has also been cited in divorce cases. Within a fortnight of the first wave of images going online, a London woman launched legal proceedings after spotting her husband’s distinct Range Rover parked outside a female friend’s house.
She dated the image to a time when he claimed he was on a business trip.
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:lol::lol::lol: Owned!
 
Lucky it was the mail, if it had been the Sun there would have some girl with her t**'s out there as well.
I'm not sure Google thought this through, they are getting a lot of stick for this idea. Wayne
 
Would anyone like to join me in a spate of burglaries in Broughton? That would teach them to deny the googlers access on ground of crime vulnerability and then point themselves out to the entire country via the medium of national newspaper.
 
I don't get why everyone's up in arms about street view, it nothing that anyone who walks around would see anyway! So the guy throwing up doesn't care that he's chundering all over the street in front of people, but god forbid anyone should take a photo of it! And the guy that was having an affair, how DARE someone photograph his car to undermine the lie he told to his wife!

If people didn't do anything in the street they should be doing, there wouldn't be a problem anyway!

Chris
 
The Matt said:
Would anyone like to join me in a spate of burglaries in Broughton? That would teach them to deny the googlers access on ground of crime vulnerability and then point themselves out to the entire country via the medium of national newspaper.
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He quotes '3 break in's in 6 weeks' we think we are doing well with 6 in 3 hours!! It's hardly a crime wave is it?


I have a photographic memory that was never developed
 
well after the Daily Mail...I bet they're going to get a lot more attention in the village.
:D
 
chris321 said:
I don't get why everyone's up in arms about street view, it nothing that anyone who walks around would see anyway! So the guy throwing up doesn't care that he's chundering all over the street in front of people, but god forbid anyone should take a photo of it! And the guy that was having an affair, how DARE someone photograph his car to undermine the lie he told to his wife!

If people didn't do anything in the street they should be doing, there wouldn't be a problem anyway!

Chris
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I totally agree... So if burglars want a decent place to rob, here's an idea.
Google "Rich areas of Britain". Find one close to them, walk around, get some ideas, rob it.
Christ, it's not rocket science is it. People are so frigging stupid it worries me sometimes.
 
I wonder why the whole right hand side of the second image is cloned (very badly)?
 
Foolishly started another thread on this as in my annoyance I didn't check the forums properly.:bang::rules:

I saw it on the BBC website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...ts/7980737.stm

Am I alone in thinking that this situation could have huge ramifications for street photography. Google are doing (albeit on a much bigger scale) what many of us do week in week out, taking pictures of buildings and people from public places.

However google are removing images if requested which gives the impression to the public that their activities are in some way illegal or illegitimate. This will only reinforce the attitudes of security guards, police and public that we are committing an offence.

Surely google should be saying that unless there is a very good case made images won't be removed.

Mark:thumbs:
 
Google want to be seen as a nice friendly household name, so they do the right thing.

If people want to misinterpret the law based on the actions of google then more fool them.
 
RichardtheSane said:
Google want to be seen as a nice friendly household name, so they do the right thing.

If people want to misinterpret the law based on the actions of google then more fool them.
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I take the point and can fully understand Googles position, however I am still concerned at the effect of this stance on the likes of us, there are so many threads on here about abuse of power by Police etc and this could just make matters worse.

Happy to be proved wrong though:shrug:
 
Broughton is just down the road from me - I was thinking of popping over there & taking a few photos, myself.

I read on another forum that the newspaper stories over this are a bit exaggerated - I heard there was a radio interview in which one of the residents explained they merely stopped the Google driver for a chat, he explained it was all legal, they let him on his way.

The councillor mentioned is a right knob, though. He's always on the local paper's letters page trying to score a few cheap points. Isn't there some saying about local politics - the stakes may be lower, but it's no less vicious?
 
Talk Sport radio station had a phone in on this subject yesterday and it is clear that the presenters and 95% of those who phoned in were under the impression that they had a right to refuse permission for their property to be photographed from a public road.

Rampant paranoia was in abundance. Someone said that a pic of a house with a child's bike outside was letting paedos know a kid lived there.
Didn't seem to occur to them that their local P**** probably lived quite near and already knew where all the kids lived.
 
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