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Romans Spotted Fleeing Google Street View Cars
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 11, 2008
Bernhard Warner at the Times Online blog writes:
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So a group of Romans can be forgiven on Wednesday afternoon for assuming the worst when a black car sporting a massive, rotating video camera, slowly drove down Viale Trastevere, a busy thoroughfare, filming everybody in sight. On cue, pedestrians shuffled off the street and into bars, out of sight of the offending vehicle, no doubt wondering if these are the new intrusions that must be endured after a sudden shift to the right.>>Nope, it wasn’t state surveillance – it was Google’s initiative to bring European street view imagery to Google Maps, as it already did for major cities in the US. As opposed to typical state surveillance cameras, Google’s street views are far from being real-time, though (in 2008 anyway).
[Thanks VatsaL!]
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