Google are hastily applying blurring to faces and car registration plates as and when it's pointed out to them; your face is blurred now but it probably wasn't earlier!
Tom Reynolds (of Random Acts Of Reality (http://randomreality.blogware.com/)) earlier Tweeted about spotting an ambulance crew unloading a patient in the ambulance bay of Newnham Hospital on Google Street View, clearly enough for him to identifty which crew it was. And patient confidentiality? Gone out the window. Google has since yanked that location, but it was up long enough for anyone to take a screenshot if they so wanted - much like the people who grabbed screencaps for this Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/1088346@N22/pool/). I doubt this poor chap (http://www.flickr.com/photos/coneee/3368179712/in/pool-1088346@N22) knew he was going to be publically viewed throwing up for the whole world to see.
The Google camera car evidently went down the driveway to the church gates around the corner from St.Mary's, because from one of the camera points you can get a pretty clear view into the vicar's bedroom at the rectory - clearly enough to see he has tasteful magnolia walls and a landscape painting on the wall.
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Date: 2009-03-19 07:59 pm (UTC)Tom Reynolds (of Random Acts Of Reality (http://randomreality.blogware.com/)) earlier Tweeted about spotting an ambulance crew unloading a patient in the ambulance bay of Newnham Hospital on Google Street View, clearly enough for him to identifty which crew it was. And patient confidentiality? Gone out the window. Google has since yanked that location, but it was up long enough for anyone to take a screenshot if they so wanted - much like the people who grabbed screencaps for this Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/1088346@N22/pool/). I doubt this poor chap (http://www.flickr.com/photos/coneee/3368179712/in/pool-1088346@N22) knew he was going to be publically viewed throwing up for the whole world to see.
The Google camera car evidently went down the driveway to the church gates around the corner from St.Mary's, because from one of the camera points you can get a pretty clear view into the vicar's bedroom at the rectory - clearly enough to see he has tasteful magnolia walls and a landscape painting on the wall.
The privacy concerns are bloody scary.