Google Maps: Now With Less Privacy

[iluvlamp]

This is strange and I don't like it. I hate it actually. This technology is just getting started toward the trend of looking in peoples skyrise apartments.

 

they are looking at you

[GAME05]

it'll be just like Brewers games, you call somebody on their cell phone and tell them to wave because everybody's looking.

[JimH5]

They must be using a more robust imaging system in San Francisco, as I just checked out my house and I couldn't get any closer than before. Still a rather fuzzy picture only recognizable because I live here.

[kuffdaddy]

If you are scared by that... then check out MSN's version when you go to maps.live.com/default.asp...&FORM=MSNH

 

-download the 3D virtual earth

-type in your home address

-go to an isometric view

 

-click on bird's eye view for even closer

 

Bill Gates has his eyes on you right now

[adamb100]

Street view is only available for major cities.

[SeriesFinale]

Street view is only available for major cities.

 

And not even all the streets.

 

I can look at a crystal clear shot of my apartment here in San Francisco now (and let me tell you it's freaking me out), but if I lived a block or two down, I wouldn't be able to. I also can't look up old addresses in Chicago, or Wisconsin or Florida.

[iluvlamp]

Series I would be freaked too. I also wonder when the real time images will occur? It's creepy.

[ccbrew]

Right now, street view is only available for San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, NYC, and Miami. I think it's kind of cool, to be honest with you.

[TheBwaz]

Right now, the street view only exists when they send somebody out to take a 360 shot, it is not like it is constantly updating or anything.

 

Not to be "that guy", but you have no expectation of privacy in a public place. Now, if they start looking in your window, there is a problem. But if you don't want all the pron on your bedroom computer to be seen from the street, best pull the shade.

[SenatorShriv]

I live with a guy getting his Masters in cartography right now and that's nothing. Some of the demo programs that he has access to are absolutely insane.

[SeriesFinale]

I'm not really freaked out by the "lack of privacy," as it were. Not to sound all Grassy Knoll or anything but I already feel like my entire life's an open book to whoever has the desire, time, and wherewithal to poke around it. I just think the technology itself is pretty wild and impressive.

[BraunsBoyfriend]

I have a friend who was in the military not so long ago.

 

Anyways, he had access to satellite cameras. What you see on these things is child's play.

 

You can be zoomed in to the point where a blade of grass is essentially viewable. All live in realtime.

 

He claims to have spied on his mother in the backyard and called her up to tell her what she was doing!

 

There is an eye in the sky and Big Brother most certainly is watching, if he chooses to.

And it's not like it's that difficult. I remember solving a physics problem on lenses and light. The question was, disregarding a horizon, how big would a refracting lense have to be to see LA from NYC? The answer was only around 7' I believe!