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busterb

04-05-2009 07:51 PM

English villagers send Google snapper packing

LONDON (AP) - You're never far from a camera in Britain, a country that has accepted the presence of millions of surveillance cameras in its streets, shopping centers and public spaces. click anywhere for link. Read last line.

Cloud

04-05-2009 09:06 PM

I saw that. Funny, but --- I don't see how there's any sort of right to privacy on the outside of one's home.

xoxoxoBruce

04-06-2009 12:44 AM

Quote:

Since the service launched, millions of Britons have gone online to look at their own houses or landmarks like the Houses of Parliament. But some government buildings and the area around the prime minister's Downing Street home have been removed.

I wonder what the significance of those Government buildings was? Probably not the tourist type buildings.

DanaC

04-06-2009 08:10 AM

Wasn't the Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries buildings, by any chance? :P

TheMercenary

04-06-2009 09:00 AM

This should be in the New World Order thread. Google is taking over the world. You watch. :tinfoil:

Sundae

04-06-2009 10:28 AM

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"I was upstairs when I spotted the camera car driving down the lane," villager Paul Jacobs told The Times of London newspaper. "My immediate reaction was anger: How dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?"

Village idiots. They probably kill and eat anyone who isn't local anyway.

It's near here actually, just outside Milton Keynes.
Thank god none of the people whose homes I've taken pictures of in the Aylbesury thread have had the same reaction!

TheMercenary

04-06-2009 07:06 PM

I was pretty lucky when the Google truck came through our place, it was just about 4 or 5 pm in the winter because I can tell the position of the sun was just over the top of the roof of our house and the shot of the front of my house is nothing more than a big blur of sunshine and refections back into the lense that was on top of the truck. Pure luck.

Cloud

04-06-2009 09:48 PM

BD#1 and Son-in-Law#1 were actually photographed by Google outside his dad's house. Weird.

glatt

04-07-2009 07:46 AM

Check out BigV's profile picture, if you haven't already.

SteveDallas

04-07-2009 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl (Post 553249)

Village idiots. They probably kill and eat anyone who isn't local anyway.

I've always wondered.. why the phrase "village idiot"? Like there aren't any idiots in cities?

xoxoxoBruce

04-07-2009 09:00 AM

Village Idiot vs Fool for the City.;)

Clodfobble

04-07-2009 03:56 PM

Because in a small village, there is likely to be only one. In a city, there are so many we have to refer to it as "downtown."

Beest

04-08-2009 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 553721)

Because in a small village, there is likely to be only one. In a city, there are so many we have to refer to it as "downtown."

..and in a country we send them all to a big building, Parliament/Congress.

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