Arthur Poirier passes near the Grand Arche de la Defense outside Paris as he pedals a specially equipped tricycle to record images for the Google Street View project. (Jacques Brinon / Associated Press / August 7, 2009) |
Posted on 09/13/2009 10:09:31 AM PDT by thecodont
Reporting from Broughton, England - The good folk of Broughton don't take kindly to being photographed without permission. Just ask Google.
When the search-engine giant sent one of its specially equipped cars to take pictures of the village for its Street View feature, residents swung into action. They stopped the car in its tracks, called the police and quizzed the bewildered driver for nearly two hours before letting him go.
"I don't think this guy anticipated how angry people would get," said Edward Butler-Ellis, 28. "We didn't stand there with pitchforks or anything and block the road with bales of hay, but obviously people were agitated. . . . A car with a pole with a camera on top of it causes suspicions."
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Arthur Poirier passes near the Grand Arche de la Defense outside Paris as he pedals a specially equipped tricycle to record images for the Google Street View project. (Jacques Brinon / Associated Press / August 7, 2009) |
What scares me even more is that young people today think nothing of recording all this information....
Too much Facebook and Twitter influence, IMO.
I don’t really see why they take it out on the google guy. These brits allow their government to record their every coming and going and all in between dozens of times a day and they sheepily go along with it.
I thought England was a country that has government cameras on every street.
I was wondering the same thing....but, maybe it’s only in the BIG Brit cities where all the cameras are???
In twenty years the All Muslim government will take care of any complaints by elderly, unarmed, no children Brits.
Good for them! Too much information on everyone out there, our homes, our lives and even our very DNA is becoming a commodity.
Google just puts the pictures out with no idea or interest of the possible negatives it could cause, like terrorist plans or simple robbery plans. That’s enough of this stuff.
I read recently there are an estimated 5M surveillance cameras in Blighty. They are not just in cities, but in small towns and even out in the countryside. Got to enforce those laws against hunting, you know.
I read recently there are an estimated 5M surveillance cameras in Blighty. They are not just in cities, but in small towns and even out in the countryside. Got to enforce those laws against hunting, you know.
Google is doing Big Brother’s work for them, therefore the governments will be reluctant to stop them.
ML/NJ
They are more prevalent in more urban areas, yes. But they are everywhere around that country.
How are they planning to enforce laws against hunting the cameras?
That’s where my thoughts were going. The British government is the most surveillance addicted government on the planet. It’s pretty much impossible to do anything there without it being photographed by the government and everybody seems to be OK with that. But when Google wants to take some pictures it’s suddenly no good?! These people need to get their priorities straight.
I think part of it is Brits’ projected/transposed anger at all the govt surveillance they can’t do anything about be transferred onto an entity that isn’t something like Big Brother to attack and ‘win’ against.
The UK isn't what it used to be.
I think more people benefit from knowing what neighborhoods to avoid than terrorists benefit.
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