This week I am to offer my opinion of privacy related to satellite and street views via Google Maps.
I have used Google Maps street view many time when I travel. The ability for me to see landmarks before making a upcoming turn is very helpful to me. When my son's dad moved last October I could go on Google Maps and see the house before taking my son there to spend the weekend. (this was in no way a stalker kind of thing)
But I never really thought about the privacy issue until this assignment. Now after doing a lot of web-surfing I have found so many things that make me question if I should really be looking at this and would I want my home to be that up and personally with everyone on the web.
Currently my town does not offer street view and right now I think I want it to stay that way. But I am torn over if all street views should be gone or maybe they could just blur out the people and open windows.
I think at this time I would prefer Google Maps to include landmarks in the street views but if there are peoples homes then I think they need to be blurred out.
You can see all kinds of things that people have found using Google Maps in my digg account. The link is in the post below.
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