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This seems kind of ridiculous, honestly. Unless your house is surrounded by high walls in real life, what it looks like is quite clearly public information.

by FreakyT 12y ago

dangerlibrary 12y ago
So, yes, you're clearly right. The appearance of publicly visible places is public information - anyone can go get it, and nobody can legally stop them. But there is definitely a meaningful difference between searching on Google and travelling to someone's home. In particular, travelling to someone's home is a symmetric relationship - if one has a security camera, one can see everyone who has visited.
- jMyles 12y ago
  > meaningful With time as the x axis, I see a downward slope in this metric. In some relatively small number of years, you'll have a drone the size of a mosquito which can fly to the home and take incredible high-resolution 3D-captures, all while either evading the hypothetical security or, more likely, blending in with existing drone noise. At that time, how meaningful will be the difference between gleaning information about the appearance of a publicly viewable object by direct optical intake or by some 'virtual' mechanism?
  - dangerlibrary 12y ago
    Drones don't fly very far. It may be possible to rent one, but now you've introduced a third party that could be compelled to redact the images, as Google has been. So to view the house anonymously from far way / another country, you'd still need to travel to some place nearby. You're right that it's no longer symmetric, but it's far more expensive than a free and anonymous Google search.
    - jMyles 12y ago
      It's not at all hard for me to imagine a peer-to-peer drone sharing service, with no centralized authority to compel, and nearby flight times to everywhere. Shit man, satellites even.
- 01Michael10 12y ago
  It is ridiculous for people to be concerned with an image of the view of their house from the street. We have enough real privacy concerns these days that people need to stop acting like street view is a real-time video cam pointed at their home. The only difference with traveling to one's home is they would have a better and more current view. Why would one need to know everyone who has walked past their house?
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This seems kind of ridiculous, honestly. Unless your house is surrounded by high walls in real life, what it looks like is quite clearly public information.

by FreakyT 12y ago

This seems kind of ridiculous, honestly. Unless your house is surrounded by high walls in real life, what it looks like is quite clearly public information.

dangerlibrary 12y ago

So, yes, you're clearly right. The appearance of publicly visible places is public information - anyone can go get it, and nobody can legally stop them. But there is definitely a meaningful difference between searching on Google and travelling to someone's home. In particular, travelling to someone's home is a symmetric relationship - if one has a security camera, one can see everyone who has visited.

jMyles 12y ago
> meaningful With time as the x axis, I see a downward slope in this metric. In some relatively small number of years, you'll have a drone the size of a mosquito which can fly to the home and take incredible high-resolution 3D-captures, all while either evading the hypothetical security or, more likely, blending in with existing drone noise. At that time, how meaningful will be the difference between gleaning information about the appearance of a publicly viewable object by direct optical intake or by some 'virtual' mechanism?
- dangerlibrary 12y ago
  Drones don't fly very far. It may be possible to rent one, but now you've introduced a third party that could be compelled to redact the images, as Google has been. So to view the house anonymously from far way / another country, you'd still need to travel to some place nearby. You're right that it's no longer symmetric, but it's far more expensive than a free and anonymous Google search.
  - jMyles 12y ago
    It's not at all hard for me to imagine a peer-to-peer drone sharing service, with no centralized authority to compel, and nearby flight times to everywhere. Shit man, satellites even.
01Michael10 12y ago
It is ridiculous for people to be concerned with an image of the view of their house from the street. We have enough real privacy concerns these days that people need to stop acting like street view is a real-time video cam pointed at their home. The only difference with traveling to one's home is they would have a better and more current view. Why would one need to know everyone who has walked past their house?
- deleted 12y ago
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