Villagers stop Google car

Soz if posted elsewhere...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7980737.stm

How did they know that Google would be taking photos on a particular time/date??

If they're coming round my way I want to make sure that I'm walking out of a sex shop/smoking a fag in a no smoking zone/being sick outside a pub/RLJing *

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backward villagers!

thanks!

Silly billys.

google cameras steal your soul..I'm suprised they didnt set about it with flaming pitchforks!

We should remove the eyeballs of every human in case they look at something - say, someone's house - and invade the homeowners privacy. I'm not in favour of a CCTV state etc, but I really don't see the harm in this.

should also ban maps........

I think cameras themselves pose the biggest thread to our nation at the moment - think of the kids!

Pitchforks out.

Fayre play to them. The authorities take enough pictures without google getting in on it aswell.

Fuck that. I could stand outside their house taking pictures and putting them on the internet if I wanted, I don't really see their grounds for complaint. It's not like google are snapping photos of them in the shower.

i have to say that i think it's fair enough that they protest. Google should not have the right to go around photographing people's property for their own gain. While I'm unconvinced about the threat this poses in terms of crime, burglary presumably, I think it is a total fucking liberty. if the car drove past my house, i would love to be stood in the middle of my garden flipping two birds. I use google every day and it almost constitutes a public service but the presumption that they can photograph everything close-up and publish it should definitely not go unchallenged.

These large companies and corporations hold so much sway it's unbelievable and in my opinion it would be for the best if people had more control of it.

I cannot believe for instance that they're building a Tesco in my village even though absolutely nobody wants it. Tesco eventually had to speak directly to John Prescott, such was the opposition. Needless to say the shithead gave them two thumbs up. They had build a tunnel over the railway that runs through the village to 'reclaim' the land for the unwanted store. this tunnel and infill collapsed onto the mainline railway; seconds later it would have landed on a train (one containing my uncle as it happens). yet they're still going ahead with it, barely modifying the sub-par engineering works. it really disgusts me.

I know there's really no legal reason for google not to do it but if you don't want them round your parts I think they should respect that

Google has not tried to photograph my parts.

Just you wait.. They will. They will

Considering that we are a nation obsessed with CCTV and most people appear on it dozens if not hundreds of times per day (over 300 times a day in London), I fail to understand the privacy obsession. Sure CCTV footage is not released to anyone, but I could get hold of it if I really wanted. Just as I could look at their village if for some horrible reason I wanted. But its unlikely.

Similarly, those people complaining are many of the people who use google everyday. If you don't want them to collect the information on you, dont use their services. Google only has the resources to do street view because collectuvely we use their services and they can make ad money.

I can hardly imagine burglars looking up weak chinks in the armour on google earth before travelling to homes for burglaries. It would be much easier to walk down the street surely...

I know there's really no legal reason for google not to do it but if you don't want them round your parts I think they should respect that

You can stop them!

You can stop everyone from seeing into your house!

Options include:

• Curtains
  
• Blinds
  
• Hedges
  
• Living down a private road and not on a public road
  
• Bricking up the windows
  
• Living underground
  

If I copy-write my house and they publish the pictures, will they have to pay me?

Hello folks,
Good on the villagers I say.
I cannot tell you where I live, but like most folks I have checked Google's street scene thing to look at my humble abode. Imagine my surprise/ horror when I scrolled along to the appropriate property that I am pictured outside my own home in the front garden. But as this is a bike forum you will all be pleased to know that I am pictured with my lovely bike!
Haven't asked them to take it down as is mentioned above it we are on CCTV circa 300 times per day anyway...
Smile for the cameras.
Peace and Love,
Tim

I cannot tell you where I live,

Are you a special agent?

i have to say that i think it's fair enough that they protest. Google should not have the right to go around photographing people's property for their own gain. While I'm unconvinced about the threat this poses in terms of crime, burglary presumably, I think it is a total fucking liberty. if the car drove past my house, i would love to be stood in the middle of my garden flipping two birds. I use google every day and it almost constitutes a public service but the presumption that they can photograph everything close-up and publish it should definitely not go unchallenged.

These large companies and corporations hold so much sway it's unbelievable and in my opinion it would be for the best if people had more control of it.

I cannot believe for instance that they're building a Tesco in my village even though absolutely nobody wants it. Tesco eventually had to speak directly to John Prescott, such was the opposition. Needless to say the shithead gave them two thumbs up. They had build a tunnel over the railway that runs through the village to 'reclaim' the land for the unwanted store. this tunnel and infill collapsed onto the mainline railway; seconds later it would have landed on a train (one containing my uncle as it happens). yet they're still going ahead with it, barely modifying the sub-par engineering works. it really disgusts me.

what he said. Vive La Village Green Preservation Society

You can stop them!

You can stop everyone from seeing into your house!

Options include:

[]Curtains
[]Blinds
[]Hedges
[]Living down a private road and not on a public road
[]Bricking up the windows
[]Living underground

I never said specifically their house.

I mentioned that I knew there was no legal reason for them to stop.

I was just airing an opinion, no need to be condescending.

for the record, i don't have a problem with what they're trying to do, but i do think that those who do should be able to object AND be taken seriously. and i also think that there's a difference between the city and small quasi-rural villages.

+1 Superprecise. I should have mentioned that I personally don't care where they take pictures.

I know Broughton well - it's hardly what you would describe as a 'village' - it's a few houses in the hinterland between Bedford and Milton Keynes. You drive through it basically to get to somewhere a bit bigger and a lot more bland.