Google Maps Driveway View?

[Msterbeau]

:o

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/google-...-driveway-view/

[Troy Spiral (13)]

There is also Loop, which is becoming huge. Its a way to keep track of your friends via the GPS system in their loop-enabled cell phones, some of the data for it has been made public... I'll advisedly i think.

[Msterbeau]

There is also Loop, which is becoming huge. Its a way to keep track of your friends via the GPS system in their loop-enabled cell phones, some of the data for it has been made public... I'll advisedly i think.

Some of these technological toys can very easily cross the line into potential serious invasions of privacy if the wrong person is in the decision making loop...

[hunhee]

"every step you take... every move you make..."

LOL..

this is really scary. BUT it's good for those of us who like to stalk in our free time

*runs off and stalks dgn'ers*

DISCLAIMER: I am not stalking you, if you think you're THAT important that you'd think that I actually have time to do that..

"you're so vein.. you really think this song is about you"...

muahahahahah

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Streetview

We’ve heard all kinds of privacy concerns since Google Maps launched its Street View photos last May, most of which have had little legal merit. However, this week a new lawsuit about Street View images could change that.

Aaron and Christine Boring (yeah, seriously) of Pittsburgh, PA, are suing Google for posting images of their home which is located on a private road. The suit, filed Wednesday in Pennsylvania, asks for $25,000 in damages and the destruction of all photos of their home in all media (including film . . .). The suit does display a basic knowledge of the Street View program (other than the film part). It was filed on Wednesday (so this isn’t an April Fools’ joke).

What better way to protect your privacy, bought for “a considerable sum of money” (according to the Smoking Gun, records indicate that was $163,000), than to file a public record with the address and photographs of your private residence?

But seriously, there is some merit to some of their arguments. They claim that the private status of their road is “clearly marked.” I’m not sure which of the actual road signs from their road, pictured at right, is supposed to be the clearly marked one, but maybe it’s legible in person.

Perhaps best of all? The road numbering Google uses is so off that you actually can’t locate their house given their street address unless you know what you’re looking for.

However, the suit does get a bit more credible. It appears that Oakridge Ln terminates in the Borings’ private driveway. In the suit, they state that their property contains a 50-foot easement (presumably the road). So Google did, apparently, drive up their driveway and photograph their house, garage and pool. How this caused them $25,000 in damages remains to be demonstrated, of course.