Australian’s Like Their Privacy When It Suits Them
Image Source: Notes2Self
With the launch of the Australian version of Google Street View two days ago, a spokesman for the Office of Federal Privacy told Australian IT that they…
“…cautiously confirmed that the agency supported Google’s approach..”
Dr Svantesson, spokesmen for the Office of Federal Privacy also noted that:
“The steps Google had taken were inadequate. Individuals could be identified by features other than faces and number plates”
He also made it clear that:
“Google has consulted with us and that has been very positive but arguably the consultation could have gone wider”.
A number of other parties have also made their opinion clear, with some loving the service and others drilling it in to the ground.
Brisbane’s Courier mail is taking the one sided approach saying that the service offers ‘high resolution images’ when in fact they are not at all.
The Courier takes on a case scenario of a single mum of whom is worried that she can now easily be identified with Google’s Street View Service, and now she can, being photographed for the article with her children who are wearing their school uniform, in front of a real high resolution image of her house with her last name and suburb identified in the article.
Without all this extra information we would have never know who she was, or had the possibility of finding her.
Image Source: Courier Mail
Seriously, what a load of BS.
Sources:
- Ben
Agreed – people are stoopid. Period.
The last paragraph sums up most of the conversations that I have had about the issue in the last week.
The other thing is the aversion that people have to their face or a picture of them on the net… to which I ask – “do you walk down the street with a bag over your head?” – they tend to think the Internet is different to real life.
Dumb dumb dumb… I just don’t get it