I agree there is no illegality under present law, but a stalker faces, at least, a very difficult task tracking someone down even if they know the general area, by just driving around.Dissident wrote:Psyber,
How does this make for a privacy issue?
If this person could drive down a street and see your house (in better resolution) or browse online, I don't see it's an issue.
I think most people are confusing privacy, with ease.
I could drive around every street in Adelaide and it's not illegal. It would just take me a long time.
Or I could do it on Google Maps, and perform the same function a lot quicker.
Either way I can see the same things.
Now they can scan around in the comfort of their home looking for clues, and as you say "perform the same function a lot quicker."
If they keep updating the images as Google Earth does this may become more of a concern. It may even help Paedophiles out then.
I agree as I said above, it is not illegal here, presently, but obviously some countries are looking at the issue, possibly with the facilitation of stalking connection in mind.Dogwatcher wrote:Psyber - Google has done nothing wrong legally. You can film/photograph any property you like (unless it's government restricted) as long as you don't step on property that is not public.
I'm not sure what your stalking, or bin duties, have to do with Google filming streets....
There must be some worried ex-wives, and ex-witnesses, out there by now.
I was semi-jokingly suggesting that, because there were so many street bins in the shots, perhaps the job of taking the shots had been sub-contracted to the companies that do the rubbish collections. After all they are already being paid to drive around the streets and therefore would be in a good position to quote and win the contract by mounting the cameras on their trucks.
Sorry, I'll try to remember to spell out what I think are obvious connections more precisely in future...
, the Google dude would've had to weave in and out of the fire trucks to get some of those pics 
