I’m not a huge fan of the Big Brother style arguments for a few reasons. I’m not doing anything illegal so why do I care if there are cameras around? Also, it’s simply illogical to think that the government or some watchdog agency can possibly police millions of people at the same time. That being said, there are examples of people’s privacy being violated. The above picture shows 2 obvious examples of Google Street View violating people’s privacy. Girls sunbathing and a guy walking into an adult book store. They definitely didn’t know the Internet was watching.
A group of Japanese lawyers and professors asked on Friday that Google Inc stop providing detailed street-level images of Japanese cities on the Internet, saying they violated privacy rights.
“We strongly suspect that what Google has been doing deeply violates a basic right that humans have,” Yasuhiko Tajima, a professor of constitutional law at Sophia University in Tokyo, told Reuters by telephone. “It is necessary to warn society that an IT giant is openly violating privacy rights, which are important rights that the citizens have, through this service.”
What do you guys think? Are you with them?
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