Valleywag
They haven't filed a lawsuit yet, like their neighbors the Borings, but the McKees' privacy was seemingly violated by a Google Street View car that drove up their driveway, snapping pictures all the way. Janet and George McKee live in the only home on Goldenbrook Lane, a gravel path that leads directly to their driveway — where the property line is. The Google car drove up Goldenbrook and continued all the way up their driveway to the front of the McKee's three-car garage and basketball hoop. Whoops. The Smoking Gun found and contacted the McKees, who said they found the pictures "creepy." Google claims "it takes images from public streets and only shows photos of locations that are in full view". Well, most of the time. See the full collection of images after the jump. Worst position in Google's legal department right now: Google Maps counsel.
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Maybe they just needed to take a leak and didn't turn the camera off. I can't imagine it is a training issue because I know for a fact that these drivers are highly skilled and paid.
Or maybe they were just driving up a road not knowing where it led. Perhaps they were working off a regular map that said Goldenbrook Ln was a road, and then didn't turn it off after they got to the property line.
Categorically - why would you say they are highly skilled and paid? I've seen these guys - that is not how I would describe them by any means.
So, when will one of these "highly skilled and paid" freaks get himself shot? Outside the Bay Area some folks don't take kindly to a strange geek in a car with a giant camera on it driving around the yard.
Dear America: Your right to privacy in your home extends to your front door.
If your property is publicly viewable, it can, and will be photographed. Don't like it? Build a giant fence. If and her lawyers can't win this one, you can't either. Streisand
@fishneversleep: Joke my friend.
They should mount the cameras on a Jeep and take it to some trails in Moab, Utah, hit up the Rubicon trail and do some exploring here in Colorado. Why drive up a dirt road with a street name (... I mean dirt driveway), when you can have some real fun on dirt.
@categorically: So, you mean Google is hiring poor, unskilled people to take pictures of America's homes?
Well, that will make Ma and Pa Joad feel sooooo much better about the whole thing.
I thought only Scientologists were allowed to do this kind of thing.
@fishneversleep:
So, you mean Google is hiring poor, unskilled people to take pictures of America's homes?
I just thought the same thing. They hire high IQ hairdressers, people with Bachelor degrees in a cafeteria & a whole army of enegineers way up in the Bell curve... and than - well ... one starts to doubt whom they hired to take the pictures?
IMHO, Google deserves to be sued for breaking privacy.
@ribbit2:
Categorically - why would you say they are highly skilled and paid? I've seen these guys - that is not how I would describe them by any means.
I just though the same. I mean Google. They boast hiring engineers on the utter right of the Bellcurve. You have to have a Bachelor minimum to work in the cafeteria, and they have even high IQ hairdressers... and than this - that let's me doubt a bit...
Well anyway, I feel like Google deserves to be sued for infringing on people's privacy.
where is the delete button? sorry, I posted a message twice. There was a delay with the posting, and I thought it did not went through...
"They haven't filed a lawsuit yet, like their neighbors the Borings"
They must still be next door listening to the story again and again and again and again, I guess they don't know about [HelpMeSue.com]
Hmm, these guys sound about as bright at Disney's PhotoPass photographers..
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