There is a debate raging between Google over their Street View, a feature of Google Maps and Privacy Lobbyist who believe that Google is over stepping its bounds and jeopardizing them by giving anybody with a net connection details about their neighborhood, the street they live on and some time even their backyards. The feature lets net goers view the images Silagra of a streets; since it was launched in May 2007, it has been in the eye of controversy with questions being raised about what would b deemed as an invasion of privacy and several lawsuits have cropped up against the company in the matter some of the notable ones were:

Boring vs. Google:

The lawsuit was filed against the company by Aaron and Christine Boring from Pittsburgh. their family lives down a private street, but the Google Street View team took pictures not only of the private street but also reached their home; these images were subsequently posted on Google Maps including pictures of the couple’s home, pool and out building which in as alleged by the Borings compromised their security.

Since the lawsuit was filed by the Borings, Google has taken down the images from their website.

Google’s street view team repeated the feat on the neighboring street from the borings. Another family the McKee’s were also forced to raise concerns about the company’s Street View feature because the team drove up the Goldenbrook lane and continued taking pictures even when they reached the garages of the family’s home. Even though the McKee family did not file a lawsuit against the company, Google did take down the pictures of their home.
Skirmish in California:

Very few states were sparred from the efforts of the Street View team, in another incident from the State of California; the team drove up at least 100 private roads in the Sonoma County as reported by PressDemocrat.com. The team was also photographed driving on past a ; no trespassing sign on at least two occasions when they drove up on the 1200 foot road leading to the house of Betty Webb in Humbolldt County. In another similar incident, the drivers of the team not only ignored the ‘ no trespassing signs’, but the kept on driving and taking pictures even when they reached someone’s yard on a dirt road; pictures of the incident were again furnished by PressDemocrat.com

The US Military against Street View:
In a separate incident, the US military complained that the street view team had compromised the security of several of their bases by taking pictures of these facilities from the streets. The Military was seeking the removal of all such photographs because they posed a potential threat to the facilities. A senior ranking officer, General Gene Renuart stated that the pictures show how the shutters go up and down, where the guards are in the facility and how to get in and out of the structures. Google, of course, honored the request made by Pentagon and the pictures were withdrawn. However, even after this was done, the US Military did find several images of their facilities all over Street View.

The pains of going global for Street View:
There was also an issue about people being accidentally photographed and their images being thrown over the site; some countries have very strict laws concerning such situations and keeping with them, Google had to modify its privacy law. The company has incorporated a facial recognition technology that can find faces and blur them so that the people in the pictures cannot be recognized. This technology is also applied to other private information like car license plates

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