Worthersee wrote:

Please don't support the paranoid rantings of deluded cat fanciers who want to have public data censored to serve their own psychosis.

Is that too big for a bumper sticker? Just like there were nude sunbathers caught with the satellite pictures there will surely be other interesting things found in these pictures. Possibly significant others soliciting prostitutes or drug dealers commencing in their daily business. However all pictures are taken from a public place, and privacy concerns shouldn't out weigh the benefits of the service.

This is at the crux of present privacy battles. Yes, if you walk out of a strip club and your girlfriend is driving by, its not like she was doing anything wrong. She didn't violate your privacy. But if everything you ever do outside is always recorded all of the time, then in a very real sense you've lost something, even though you can't put a finger on the quantum recordings as being inappropriate, or the access to the quantum recordings as being inappropriate. Its the same thing in numerous contexts. You've no 4th amendment right to privacy in regard to the phone numbers you've dialed, because the phone company presumptively knows them, and you have to presume that they might tell the police. However, generally you wouldn't. Generally you'd think the phone company wouldn't tell the police who you are calling unless they suspected you of something. Its possible that the phone companies have been providing every number that everyone ever dials to the NSA. There is a difference. We better get good at recognizing it.

RE: Boing Boing: Google Maps is spying on my cat, says freaked out BB reader