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The linked article says people thought Street View was a live feed of their houses. This is pure conjecture coming from a single person, and sounds like a massi
by ratww 5y ago
The linked article says people thought Street View was a live feed of their houses. This is pure conjecture coming from a single person, and sounds like a massive straw-man.
I know several people who have blocked their houses on Google and absolutely none of them had this assumption. Anecdotal, I know, but in the article there is zero data backing that assertion.
- Semaphor 5y agoAs I said, can't find more now. But I remember even reading about fears of it being live in the local newspaper in Flensburg.
- sdoering 5y agoI was working in online media back then. They loved these crazy ideas and promoted them because of massive outrage. Outrage generates clicks and clicks === €. And then they wrote pieces about what kinds of idiots didn't want to have their houses filmed. And about people who had their shop front blurred, because people in the 5th floor didn't want the house to be in the clear on street view. It was outrage porn at it's best. And one of the things that made me decide that I maybe should do something else with my life.
- ratww 5y agoYeah, agreed. As a teen I did an internship in journalism, way before becoming a coder, and crazy stories like those were the bread and butter of newsrooms. :(