Smile, You're on Google Camera!

You can run..... but ya can't hide!

Weird looking vans are patrolling the streets of major cities in North America and Europe as we speak, taking pictures of street-scapes and store-fronts.

Of course they also show pictures of things and people that would rather not be made too public like guys coming out of strip clubs, a thief climbing up the side of a house, women sunbathing topless, some guy having a leak, another one picking his nose, drunks and homeless people and even the case of a woman who googled another woman's house.

She suspected that her husband was having an affair with her!

Guess what she saw?

Common...... guess!

Give up?

She saw her husband's car PARKED OUT FRONT!!!!!!!

Now you have to remember that these are not "real time" events and the pictures can be weeks, months and even years old, but there is a general groundswell of people who are getting upset about this practise and calling it an "invasion of privacy!"

We have to tell you that Google obscures facial images and license plate numbers whenever possible but Canada's privacy police wrote to Google about a year ago and informed them that "Street View" might not conform with our Federal privacy legislation.

In particular, the privacy commissioner wrote, "images of individuals that are sufficiently clear to to be identified" are considered personal information protected by law.

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!

Listen folks, when you go "out in public," it's called that for a reason.

You're; "Going out in Public!"

Dammit, I don't think it can get any clearer than that when the actual description of what you're doing tells you exactly what you're doing!

Listen bunky, even if what you're doing is incompatible with what you should be doing, you're not going out incognito, you're not going out invisible, you're also not going out indescribable, or insurmountably innocuous, or inscrutably, or indirectly, or incidentally.

Even if you only go out intermittently you can't intellectualize it and expect indiscriminate indifference ....., just individual inequity.

Oh, you can be infinitely infinitesimal in your skulking, but Google will still infiltrate your infantile attempts at inappropriate behaviour and and record your inexact, inherently innumerable transgressions.

Yes folks, you're out in public and no amount of indignation over any incident you get involved in will be enough to invoke a justifiable roar of indignation.

So get over it!

Your "OUT IN PUBLIC!"

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-Allan; Several years ago, Google was successfully sued to clean up the "street view" feature of Google Earth for just the same reason. I agree with you that, once you leave the privacy of your own home, YOU'RE IN PUBLIC!!! Watch your step.
Keep in mind that the NSA spy satellites can read the headlines on a newspaper from orbit. Every so often when I'm walking, I wave at the sky just to aggravate Big Brother.
Walker Bennett, SF Author

-Allan; The people complaining are probably the ones who couldn't do without their cell phones, it is a satellite that snopps and makes it possible for you to run red lights while chatting away!
I checked my address on Google and the picture of my house, from the air, was very good, and very out-of-date. I had an above ground pool about 15-20 years ago and that is the shot the satellite has of the house, it is still there and it has been gone two decades!
Georgiana S

-Allan; The Google street view of my house shows my sister sitting on the front porch reading a book. It also shows a tree that blew down in the last storm. I check once in a while to see if it has been updated.
Carrie C.

-Allan;While we have nothing to hide, our home Googled picture shows Mike going up to the house, his truck (which is very distinct) My car (which is also distinct and only two like it in this town) and gives the address. I don't think I like that but I'm not sure why. We're way past the age of transgressions (they seem like way to much trouble to bother with) but I felt violated.
J.P.

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know......!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E! and H E R E! And as a paperback H E R E ! and H E R E !

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