"UK"
"invasion of privacy"

I would personally say that having the most CCTV cameras per square kilometer in the urban centers would be invading privacy a tad more than GSV.

As long as the only thing visible is what you can see from the street, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

It was the Mail or the Telegraph right Soth?

LOL XD

> Soth wrote:

> I was reading an article today about the recent google street view which is meant to complement google Earth.  apparently people in the UK are upset about this new level of detail that allows people to look at individual houses on the street.  They say its an invasion of privacy. 

I don't see how this invades anyones privacy considering that anyone can walk along a sidewalk and not be accused of invading someones privacy.<

Consider this:
"An Englishman's home is his castle."
Cheesy, I know, but that does not alter it's truth. Ask any member of the NRA and they will tell you, possibly whilst cradling something that would make the British Olympic Shooting Team weep with envy, "Bricks and baseball bats? Can't defend a home with those!".
And we can't.
And we can't make guns legal either.
Along the arteries and veins of my town there are cameras, in the heart and along the back streets, this in a town which was once one of the worst in the UK. My town was once worse than London. When I go to the supermarket at 3AM I am safe.
Football Friday is no longer feared, now the thuggish Chesterfield fans are forced to go home peacefully rather than force our honourable Stags supporters to defend themselves with sticks, knuckledusters and steel toe-capped boots.
For this I pay Taxes and I am greatful.
I would also be greatful if I was not on Google Streets UK or whatever it's called...

The right to absolute paranoid privacy: greatest American invention, ever.

How dare they blackmail people break the law by selling drugs?! >=/

> CanadianTire wrote:

> So Fokker, you are in favour of CCTV them? Even though several stories over the years have hit our media outlets about police using them to see a watch on spouses they think are cheating, or blackmailing people who regularly commit crimes (selling drugs notably).<

To a point, I am in favour of CCTV, for example one can never have enough cameras in a city centre, or in most public places even, but aimed directly at my home? No.

Regarding police misusing the CCTV systems for their own personal agendas, I think they should be fired permanently; If they can not be trusted with something as simple as keeping a camera pointed at the car park, how can they be trusted at all?

As for using the system to blackmail drug-dealers, let me ask you this: Which is more dangerous, the dealer, or the bent cop? Who are we supposed to trust? Can we EVER trust a policeman who chooses profit over punishment? And where does it stop?...

..."Hello little girl; mummy and daddy told me that your new boyfriend is a pimp and that you've been seen on the streets, working to earn that smack of his. Now I know you love your boyfriend and you dont want him to get into trouble, so I'll keep my mouth shut and tell mummy and daddy that I can't find you if you suck me off three times a week."