Residents Challenge Google Camera
April 3rd, 2009Rather than stopping the car, people should have held up signs that said adblockplus.org as it drove past. That way, Google would go on to blindly promote its own destruction. Sixty foot long penis optional.
Via: BBC:
Angry residents in Milton Keynes blocked the driver of a Google Street View car when he started taking photographs of their homes.
Police were called to Broughton after residents staged the protest accusing Google of invading their privacy and “facilitating crime”.
Councillor John Bint told the BBC the camera mounted on a car was intrusive and people should have been consulted.
Google said it observed UK law and only filmed from public areas.
The company also said it had consulted various police forces and provided the means for residents to have their home removed from the service.
Two other important things:
http://noscript.net/
and WinXP/Vista hosts file:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
This isn’t resistance so much as cognitive dissonance. Considering the British have surrendered their privacy to a state panopticon, and were eager to do so, it’s not surprising they feel some misdirected anxiety.