Beware, if you have even the slightest voyeuristic tendencies the following service/site from Google is going to be addictive. Google Streetview launched back in May and has made the privacy wonks apoplectic. With good reason, theres lots of negative privacy implications to Google Streetview, there’s already been an incident involving a not so secret coffee break and an overzealous HR manager. However, the sheer voyeuristic goodness of Google’s Streetview more then offsets the obvious assault on our privacy. Besides, Google promises to do no evil and they are the only search engine that said no to the US government when it tried to get their search records. Of course, if the folks in Washington werent such Luddites they would know that they could get the same information by simply doing a Google search.
To check out hte funniest links found on Google Streetview you should check out Streetview Gallery, Streetviewr.com and Map Mole.
June 14, 2007 at 7:09 pm |
I obscured the address in the image but linked to the full-sized images via Google Streetview, which of course contains the whole address. Not suer why I thought it was important to blackout the address as if somehow I was protecting the identity of this street pharmacist.
June 15, 2007 at 8:02 pm |
[...] Spying on Friends and Neighbors with Google Streetview [image] [...]
June 20, 2007 at 9:11 am |
Love Street View
July 15, 2007 at 6:01 pm |
how does the spy on friends and neighbors thing work…I see no obvious tabs???????????????????????
March 18, 2008 at 12:32 pm |
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