10 Reasons why Google Street View UK should stay

Posted by Michael Sawh on Tue 24 Mar 2009

Please don't take our View away

Since Google Street View UK was launched last week, it is fair to say that it has not quite had the fair crack of the voyueristic whip. As the privacy brigade grows in numbers, here at T3 we are willing to look past the man relieving himself in Birmingham, and the unfortunate vomiting cityboy in Shoreditch, to argue the case why Google Street View UK should stay alive.

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User Comments

By lovlid

26|04|2009 20:30

Hey opaque, they did these things in public but not in front of their wives or mothers or whatever. If people want to keep secrets, it can still be done in open view. Im not against google street, but I am against holier than thou p!llocks like you who just can't see that some people dont want to be a part of it. People should be able to point google to their place on the map and request facial blurring or something equally effective, I dont care how much it costs a multi billion dollar company to implement.

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By opaque

28|03|2009 11:30

You would have thought they could have got permission from local councils to take pics of the major tourist areas that might be behind bollards or pedestrian areas.
Leicester Square in London, Princes and the High Street in Edinburgh being 2 examples I've noticed. Massive lost opportunity there.

Generally though, the fact that it's all legal is the No 1 reason to keep it. The complaints against them that someone saw them smoking when they told their wife they'd given up, or the boy that was on a skateboard when he'd been told he couldn't have one. These people did these things in PUBLIC!

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