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Google: ‘Complete Privacy Does Not Exist’

By Adam Frucci on August 1, 2008 at 4:00 AM

If you’re looking for one statement to neatly sum up the world we live in right now, allow me to present to you this one, made by Google lawyers in their defence during a Google Street View lawsuit: “Today’s satellite-image technology means that even in today’s desert, complete privacy does not exist.“


I mean, I guess I kind of agree with them, and I think people suing Google for putting a photo of the exterior of their house on Street View are idiots, but putting it that plainly kind of takes the wind out of your sails, no? [Smoking Gun via The Raw Feed]

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  • Mark
    August 6, 2008 at 1:43 PM

    Not really privacy issue, but it’s a technology that should NOT be for public view. It can and will be used to aid criminals, increased house breakin`s and theft could be put back to Google streets. Paedophiles could use it to find where kids are unprotected in parks and homes, etc.

    I say make it private or a monthly subscription required.

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