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Business - Written Wednesday, September 12, 2007 by Mike Dover - 0 Comments
Google maps and the expectation of privacy
Article in today’s National Post describing how Google Streetscape may violate Canada’s privacy laws.
From the article:
Pictures available on the Street View application — which so far only shows images of U.S. cities — showcase the embarrassing to the mundane. From a man waiting for the bus to a person coming out of a pornography shop, all of the images can be quickly and easily accessed just by going online. Numerous Web sites have already popped up to allow users to post funny or embarrassing photographs of people and places spotted using the Street View application.
This is another example of people becoming an unintended celebrity. Friend of New Paradigm, Anastasia Goodstein wrote a great post on the Huffington Post on this issue.

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