Are you ever a little concerned that the guys driving around in the Google Street View van might be catching more of your life on camera than you’d like? Well, Switzerland is.
Google Street View van
Swiss privacy official Hanspeter Thuer argues that Google’s Street View camera is an invasion of privacy that shows more than a normal passerby would be able to see from the road due to the height of its camera above hedges and fences.
Google Street View has caught a number of indescretions on camera–like this fire truck hitting an elderly woman on a bike–but I don’t see it being a major invasion of privacy.
Caught on Google Street View
This image has since been removed, but it doesn’t change the fact that the Google Street View camera sees all.
What do you think of the Google Street View camera? Is it an invasion of privacy, a threat to national security or a way to provide useful mapping features to the masses?
Tags: Google, Google Maps, Google street view
December 8, 2009 at 1:26 pm
StreetView for me is not a problem as long as it remains confined to the private sphere. It is a pity that the Switzerland still poses new problems. There also exists among us a system of StreetView VIDEO (try http://www.streetview.ch/) created by GlobalVisons hope that will not also polemics