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Smile, you’re on Google!
It’s coming to a street near you, and it aims to build a catalogue of 360-degree images
of Macau which will feature on Google’s controversial “Street View’’ later this year
have revealed women in
their underwear, men enter-
ing adult entertainment shops
and even people urinating in
public streets and robberies in
progress.
In June last year, North
Oaks, a small city in the
north-American state of Min-
nesota where all streets are
privately owned, asked Goog-
le to remove Street View im-
ages because their consent was
not given, a request to which
Google acceded.
More recently, in Japan,
a group of citizens accused
Google of violating their right
to privacy by providing de-
tailed geographical informa-
tion on the country’s cities.
G
oogle maps is tak- and the same will soon happen embarrassing moments reach- “It’s our understanding
ing a bold new step in Macau. ing the worldwide web, such as that what Google is doing
into Macau, infact, Caroline Hsu, of Google’s the use of filters and easy ways violates fundamental human
you may well see their camera- Communications Department for users and authorities to flag rights,’’ Yasuhiko Tajima, pro-
mounted cars plying the streets for Taiwan and Hong Kong, problems. fessor of Constitutional Law at
of the SAR soon. told the Sunday Morning Post Tokyo University and leader
Their mission is to cap- recently that once the pictures Underwear and robbery of the Campaign Against Sur-
ture images for “Street View”, are taken, they will be upload- veillance Society movement
a feature of Google Maps that ed for viewing. Hsu’s reassurances come told Reuters news agency.
provides panoramic street level She stressed that Google amid controversy over “Street Despite the controversy,
views of cities allowing users will only provide images that View” and claims it doesn’t “Street View” is already avail-
to view them at ground level. anyone can see on a public street respect private property signs able for several north-Amer-
Since the last month, the com- and that privacy protection was while capturing images of ican cities, as well as some
pany has been on the streets of a major priority. Indeed, meas- non-public streets and roads. in Europe, Australia, New
Hong Kong collecting images, ures were introduced to avoid Also, some of its galleries Zealand and Japan.
february 2009
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