Law in the Internet Society

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 Google Street View, a component of Google Maps, provides panoramic camera photos views from streets. Street View is an example of how Internet data sharing can have serious privacy repercussions, so I thought it might be interesting to use it as a case study in privacy analysis.
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Google Has Won Round One

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Google Ducks, Weaves

 From its inception, Street View has been the target of privacy gadflies. Street View captured people walking into porn stores, vomiting on the street, lounging about déshabillé, and in other compromising situations. Homeowners are worried about criminals casing them remotely. Tourism officials are anguished that non-seasonal images don’t portray their area favorably.

Google lists four concessions made to placate privacy interests: public road access only, lack of real time imaging, blurring license plates and faces, and the ability to manually request removal of an image. The blurring technology works well – see the entrance to College Walk as an example. Although Google doesn’t have explicit guidelines on when it will remove Street View images, it has been assiduous in responding to takedown requests.


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