GOOGLE BOSS SAYS: 'IF YOU DON'T LIKE GOOGLE STREETVIEW, THEN MOVE HOUSE' | |
| Ultra Red User ID: 1026222 10/26/2010 09:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1020876 10/26/2010 09:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Time to boycott google. Quoting: ljb 1128828Google sniffed the shit out of american networks back when they drove around. I knew they were on the way, so I politely shutdown my internet devices ahead of them coming. If your routers were on, they got your IP/MAC/SSID/channel/untelling whatever else. Screw you google Government Ordered Observation Getting Larger Everyday |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1020876 10/26/2010 09:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's not illegal to take a picture of a house. Besides, most of you don't even truly own your houses anyway. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 973341It isn't the house picture that is the problem, it is posting it on the internet for all to see that brings legal ramifications. Would you like me to post some pictures of your children on 4chan or here? Get my point? There should be an assumed amount of privacy. Also, nevermind the picture, how about the INTRUSIVE and self-admittedly ILLEGAL network scanning/sniffing/logging/who knows what else that they ADMIT they did? I'll tell you this about them. THEY USE WINDOWS. How do I know? Because watchers can be watched. The next time "google" scans my internet, I hope they made good backups of their little street car named desire. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1140182 10/26/2010 10:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's not illegal to take a picture of a house. Besides, most of you don't even truly own your houses anyway. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1020876It isn't the house picture that is the problem, it is posting it on the internet for all to see that brings legal ramifications. Would you like me to post some pictures of your children on 4chan or here? Get my point? There should be an assumed amount of privacy. Also, nevermind the picture, how about the INTRUSIVE and self-admittedly ILLEGAL network scanning/sniffing/logging/who knows what else that they ADMIT they did? I'll tell you this about them. THEY USE WINDOWS. How do I know? Because watchers can be watched. The next time "google" scans my internet, I hope they made good backups of their little street car named desire. |
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| Hickory User ID: 974021 10/26/2010 10:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They are not doing anything illegal, by taking a video of your house. They are shooting from the street, which is public property. Hope they never make it illegal, else no one will be able to take any videos anywhere. You have one life. Live it. You have one voice, use it. You have one :Hickory-1: |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 732706 10/26/2010 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's not illegal to take a picture of a house. Besides, most of you don't even truly own your houses anyway. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 973341No it's not. But just recently in England, a man found naked photos of his young sons playing at his home on Streetview. You'd probably react the the same way about it, they were your young sons. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1020876 10/26/2010 10:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They are not doing anything illegal, by taking a video of your house. They are shooting from the street, which is public property. Quoting: HickoryHope they never make it illegal, else no one will be able to take any videos anywhere. What about the network intrusion? The picture is a cover for that, imo. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1020876 10/26/2010 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The next time "google" scans my internet, I hope they made good backups of their little street car named desire. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1055574This is how you act like an ITG, everyone. Well done. A packet here, a packet there, will keep them from intruding, everywhere. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 950716 10/26/2010 10:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's not illegal to take a picture of a house. Besides, most of you don't even truly own your houses anyway. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1020876It isn't the house picture that is the problem, it is posting it on the internet for all to see that brings legal ramifications. Would you like me to post some pictures of your children on 4chan or here? Get my point? There should be an assumed amount of privacy. Also, nevermind the picture, how about the INTRUSIVE and self-admittedly ILLEGAL network scanning/sniffing/logging/who knows what else that they ADMIT they did? I'll tell you this about them. THEY USE WINDOWS. How do I know? Because watchers can be watched. The next time "google" scans my internet, I hope they made good backups of their little street car named desire. I don't think there are any legal ramifications either. If it's a public street (which the street views are as far as I know), anyone can drive down it and take a picture and post it anywhere they want. You don't own privacy over the "sight" of your house. If you don't want someone seeing it, put up a wall, or big trees, or bushes, or whatever... Now, birds eye view into your private back yard is another thing altogether!! And their sniffing of emails/passwords etc over wifi is definitely wrong, although people shouldn't be so dumb as to not encrypt.... |
| dereistic User ID: 846424 10/26/2010 10:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They can go fuck themselves, I've was living at my house way before google even existed. But, my house isn't on google street view, the car turned around on my street, 2 houses before mine. "And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention" |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1020876 10/26/2010 10:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't think there are any legal ramifications either. If it's a public street (which the street views are as far as I know), anyone can drive down it and take a picture and post it anywhere they want. You don't own privacy over the "sight" of your house. If you don't want someone seeing it, put up a wall, or big trees, or bushes, or whatever... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 950716Now, birds eye view into your private back yard is another thing altogether!! And their sniffing of emails/passwords etc over wifi is definitely wrong, although people shouldn't be so dumb as to not encrypt.... The way the law is nowadays, breaking/intruding into my private network is no different than physically breaking into my house. The picture, I don't have so much of a problem with, because like you said, anyone who drives there can see it, free country, etc.. Now, the network issue is the real problem. Who the fuck is google that they need to sniff/record every network in the world? Who gave them the legal right? Who allows them to do this with no punishment? Why is there not a major lawsuit like there was in Germany? Best thing any of you can do, is block google at router level, google.com, analytics, the whole shebang. Fuck them, they have no consideration, only motivation for profits. We all know how it turns out when profiteers are in the driver seat. |
| Mercurius User ID: 1087913 10/26/2010 10:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Images of public places are free for all to take. Its pretty essential to freedom of the press. If you don't like what can be seen from the street then change it. Its a free country, and anyone is free to take photos from the public street. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 53618 10/26/2010 10:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Now, the network issue is the real problem. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1020876Who the fuck is google that they need to sniff/record every network in the world? Who gave them the legal right? They use the wi-fi access points to enhance the accuracy of the geo-location on Android phones. By plotting the GPS co-ords of known access points it makes it possible for an Android phone user to fix their position on a Google map even with the GPS turned off since the phone can detect a list of the wifi-networks in the area and cross-reference them with the database to fix a position. There is nothing wrong with that if you ask me, and it only works if your access point is set to broadcast its name (SSID), mine is not-- one needs to know it's name to connect to it, along with a passphrase, etc. If you are broadcasting the fact that you have a wi-fi network (and airwaves are public, BTW) then it can be tracked at will (just ask any police scanner owner). I do wonder why they sniffed the networks, however, since that is not required for the above functionality. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1020876 10/26/2010 11:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Now, the network issue is the real problem. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 53618Who the fuck is google that they need to sniff/record every network in the world? Who gave them the legal right? They use the wi-fi access points to enhance the accuracy of the geo-location on Android phones. By plotting the GPS co-ords of known access points it makes it possible for an Android phone user to fix their position on a Google map even with the GPS turned off since the phone can detect a list of the wifi-networks in the area and cross-reference them with the database to fix a position. There is nothing wrong with that if you ask me, and it only works if your access point is set to broadcast its name (SSID), mine is not-- one needs to know it's name to connect to it, along with a passphrase, etc. If you are broadcasting the fact that you have a wi-fi network (and airwaves are public, BTW) then it can be tracked at will (just ask any police scanner owner). I do wonder why they sniffed the networks, however, since that is not required for the above functionality. So they break the law to expand their business, I see. My access point is NOT set to broadcast, however, you should know that there is PLENTY software that will identify an active network even if the name is not broadcasting. Mine is passworded/MAC filtered/non-broadcast, the only way to go. Big uproar over private data being harvested by google in other countries, I guess when you are doing it for your govt, then it doesn't make too many waves in your own country, eh? |