Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Street View and the Patriot Act

To anyone who is of the belief that Google Street View is "the Patriot Act in action", please go educate yourself before opening your mouth and sounding ridiculous. Google just added a ton of new locations, so I'm sure there will be more of an uprise by silly people than ever in the next few days. But before you speak and cause me to bang my head against my desk, please consider the following:
  • Google is a corporation, not a government agency.
  • Street View is not live, so please quit looking for the camera right outside your house. It already drove by 6 months ago.
  • Google only travels on public property that any bozo can take pictures of (and when they accidentally stumble onto private property, they get in trouble for it and take it down)
  • Google has technology that automatically blurs out faces and license plate numbers, so no, your wife can't tell that it was you leaving the strip club in the middle of the day. You might want to throw away that shirt though, just to be safe. If you're still worried about it, you can always hit the "Report a concern" link at the bottom of the image. It might also be a good idea to stop frequenting strip clubs in the middle of the day, pervert.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey, I'm rooting for the NYT to go out of business in 2009!

Brian said...

You should find someone that disagrees and bet on it.