Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Dzwig wrote: >Over her (Britain) a village turmed out en masse to turn Google's camera >cars >back. THere have been other similar incidents elsewhere. > >For right or wrong there is a lot of concern about Google photographing at >street level. People feel that there may be an invasion of privacy issue. >People >may not want it known - for whatever reason - that they were on that street >then. Blurring doesn't always work. You could identify the people outside >the >Zen Cafe without being able to see their faces, by the clothes that they >were >wearing - or Tom at least. It may not be sufficient to blur. > >On the other hand we are the most photographed (with CCTV cameras) nation >on Earth. > > > Smile ;-) Phx >Peter > >Steve Barbour wrote: > > >>On Oct 7, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Henning Wulff wrote: >> >> >> >>>Google earth/maps now has Streetview up for Vancouver. >>> >>>If you enter: >>> >>>1659 Yew Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada >>> >>>in maps.google.com, and rotate to view the west side of the street >>>(the building with the little yellow framed wood terrace, that's the >>>Zen Cafe where Tom Abrahamsson, I and various photographers and >>>friends have and continue to meet on Friday mornings. Many LUGgers >>>know the place. >>> >>>This street was obviously shot on a Friday morning about 10:30am in >>>April, because under the cherry tree are seen Tom in his tan vest >>>fiddling with his pipe, Chris Cameron in dark, myself in a light blue >>>shirt and one other person who I can't recognize at the moment. >>> >>> >>fascinating... >> >>re Google... The commission has also expressed concern about Google >>placing images of people on the Internet without their consent. The >>company said it has developed sophisticated technology to automatically >>blur faces as well as licence plates on cars. It has also placed simple >>instructions on its Google Maps website to allow people to ask that >>specific images be removed. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>-- >>> >>> * Henning J. Wulff >>> /|\ Wulff Photography & Design >>>/###\ mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com >>>|[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Leica Users Group. >>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > >