Saturday, June 02, 2007
Google Street ! What Next ?
Call me Bubble Boy if you must but this is totally new to me, where will it all end I wonder?
Privacy advocates have pointed out that there may be times when we don't want to be photographed on the street – joint in hand, exiting a strip club, emerging from a sneaky matinee......
Then the writer talks about contemporary times here the UK, I may not necessarily agree, but I sure know where he's coming from.
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"Given that life in the UK is now essentially a series of Orwellian performances – leaving your webcam to drive past street cameras and then nod to the camera in your lift before you sit down and start streaming video from your desk – I find that I'm curiously unbothered by the privacy implications of all this. It feels like we've lost so much privacy already that this final blow has lost its impact." more
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