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GavinSnyderFirstPaper 3 - 03 Dec 2009 - Main.GavinSnyder
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| | | Governments can insist that Google keep all existing privacy safeguards in place when adding Street View data for new countries. Additionally, they can press for a more explicit policy on responding to user-reported problems. Ideally, Google would operate under a clear, codified policy to take down reported images swiftly.
None of this, however, would change the fundamental dynamics of Street View. Because of its substantial utility, most people and governments will accept an intrusion into privacy. They don’t have the same uncompromising attitude towards privacy that Professor Moglen has. There is no political will, even in Europe, to completely ban it. Street View will become another piece of the data mining ecosystem that is available to public and private entities. | |
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| | | The nightmare scenarios you envision regarding data aggregation using Street View seem to depend on Street View’s ability to provide up to date images, which are frequently refreshed and analyzed for visual data. Absent the use of satellite view in lieu of street view, such content collection and analysis seems practically impossible for the time being. Assuming faces are blurred to preserve the anonymity of those people on the street, what threat does a stale image of a house or a storefront pose?
I find your points regarding criminals using Street View to case locations to be particularly unpersuasive. Street View images cannot provide accurate information regarding burglar alarms, daily routines, etc. Street View may help identify a potential target, but it is no substitute for real casing. Nevertheless, it does not take a criminal mastermind to obtain all of the information that Street View can provide. Anyone can drive by the front of a house and make a guess about the relative value of its contents based on the neighborhood that it is in and its appearance.
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Thanks for your comment, Stephen. Your points are well-taken. Would you be more on guard if images were updated monthly? Weekly? With a small, autonomous, dragonfly-sized robotic helicopter, say? There's no doubt that the tech is primitive right now, but it's only going to get better.
-- GavinSnyder - 2 Dec 2009 |
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