The idea of people freaking out about things that are already public going public is stupid? if you don't want people to see your shit, don't make it visible from the street. Problem solved.
If you have a big red sign in your window that says "cheap pussy here, inquire inside" whether google knows about it or not if the least of your worries.
When I was a kid, my mother liked to house-hunt as a hobby. I grew up not only being dragged from open-house to open-house on the weekends, but also with being driven veeery slooowly through desirable neighborhoods at night while she checked out what the insides of the houses were like.
This may be why I have venetian blinds or blackout blinds in all my "private" rooms, and never ever open them.
This may ALSO be why I consider any room without a heavy opaque cover over the window to be just as public as my front lawn...
There is a difference between public and searchable. The line has been gradually getting blurrier, and that is frightening. The only defense seems to be to make less things public, which isn't good because it promotes paranoia and reduces the human links which hold society together.
No, I don't have a solution; I just see a dilemma.
I'm not sure there is a real difference. I mean, who cares about your front window on the internet besides people who are capable of walking there and looking in it themselves. At least the images on google aren't live. I think that a lot of people are freaking out for no good reason. People just never thought before about the fact that people could see them and now they're thinking about it. Good. It'll make people more security conscious.
Faces and license plates show up in some of those photos.
For a long time, a P.I. has been able to get "dirt" on people, but only through a fair bit of invested effort. Making that easier is, I think, dangerous for a number of reasons.
For example, a company may well be interested in profiling customers to a higher degree. Previously, this would have been prohibitively expensive, because each person to be profiled would require a considerable investment. With searchable databases, though, this can be automated and a large amount of information harvested quickly and cheaply. That information can then be mined by entities for any purpose, and I don't trust corporate purposes much.
In principle, there may not be a difference, but I think that there is one in practice.
Faces and license plates show up in real life, too. The difference is that if I want to track down the license plate of a car at a particular place, then my odds are seeing it are better IRL is I go look. This is all stuff that is already out for public consumption. If someone can track down your license plate number using a poorly resolved image of your face, then run with it. They could do the very same thing by hanging out where you work.
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Date: 2007-05-31 09:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 12:59 pm (UTC)If you have a big red sign in your window that says "cheap pussy here, inquire inside" whether google knows about it or not if the least of your worries.
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Date: 2007-05-31 01:09 pm (UTC)This may be why I have venetian blinds or blackout blinds in all my "private" rooms, and never ever open them.
This may ALSO be why I consider any room without a heavy opaque cover over the window to be just as public as my front lawn...
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Date: 2007-05-31 02:24 pm (UTC)No, I don't have a solution; I just see a dilemma.
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Date: 2007-05-31 02:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-31 05:16 pm (UTC)For a long time, a P.I. has been able to get "dirt" on people, but only through a fair bit of invested effort. Making that easier is, I think, dangerous for a number of reasons.
For example, a company may well be interested in profiling customers to a higher degree. Previously, this would have been prohibitively expensive, because each person to be profiled would require a considerable investment. With searchable databases, though, this can be automated and a large amount of information harvested quickly and cheaply. That information can then be mined by entities for any purpose, and I don't trust corporate purposes much.
In principle, there may not be a difference, but I think that there is one in practice.
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Date: 2007-05-31 05:31 pm (UTC)