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If you want to secure all your traffic - you can use VPN solution from another country.Comment
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(The issue at hand is scope creep, and setting a limit to how far you are willing to let your privacy slide. After all, losing freedom for the sake of the appearance of security is hardly worth while is it. I think Ben Franklin had the best quote regarding that.)- TomJamesComment
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Can I assume that you also have no curtains and you don't mind if the government install cameras in your bedroom, bathroom etc? I mean you have nothing to hide...
(The issue at hand is scope creep, and setting a limit to how far you are willing to let your privacy slide. After all, losing freedom for the sake of the appearance of security is hardly worth while is it. I think Ben Franklin had the best quote regarding that.)Comment
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What about Google driving down peoples streets taking pictures of their houses. Talk about an invasion of privacy. I hear some people who have spotted the Google mobile with the camera on the roof and told them to piss off.
I'd be incline to say the same also myself.Comment
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Yeah I read that on the net. Google claims its not invasion of privacy. Everyone should moon them out of their windows when the car drives down the street!Comment
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I actually don't care about the outside of my house. They aren't seeing much different than the neighbors houses.Translations provided by Google.
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Can I assume that you also have no curtains and you don't mind if the government install cameras in your bedroom, bathroom etc? I mean you have nothing to hide...
(The issue at hand is scope creep, and setting a limit to how far you are willing to let your privacy slide. After all, losing freedom for the sake of the appearance of security is hardly worth while is it. I think Ben Franklin had the best quote regarding that.)Dean Clatworthy - Web Developer/DesignerComment
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What Google is doing is not an invasion of privacy at all! I could walk down the street and see exactly the same thing. Those idiots that stop the Google car should be done for a breach of the peace!
I love Google Street View! I keep a close eye on the property market and find it invaluable! Esp when I am looking at houses in Australia!Comment
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What Google is doing is not an invasion of privacy at all! I could walk down the street and see exactly the same thing. Those idiots that stop the Google car should be done for a breach of the peace!
I love Google Street View! I keep a close eye on the property market and find it invaluable! Esp when I am looking at houses in Australia!
Anyway, the reason why this was highlighted is because people are saying that a criminal could use this new Google map thing to zoom in on houses and target houses that look like prime targets to rob. That what the big fuss is about, and why they feel Google should be asking them for there permission to take the pictures first. And why some people to protect there privacy and "safety" have been turning them away from taking pictures of their house.
Do you really want every house thief who uses the net to be able to have a good close-up look at your house to see if it looks like an easy target. I sure wouldn't!Last edited by MRGTB; Tue 14 Apr '09, 3:30am.Comment
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Yeah, you could walk down the street and see my house. But stopping outside it and taking pictures of it is a totally different story, one that would see most people come out and ask you what the hell your playing at.
Anyway, the reason why this was highlighted is because people are saying that a criminal could use this new Google map thing to zoom in on houses and target houses that look like prime targets to rob. That what the big fuss is about, and why they feel Google should be asking them for there permission to take the pictures first. And why some people to protect there privacy and "safety" have been turning them away from taking pictures of their house.
Do you really want every house thief who uses the net to be able to have a good close-up look at your house to see if it looks like an easy target. I sure wouldn't!Dean Clatworthy - Web Developer/DesignerComment
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My issue was that the government should not be (easily) allowed to slowly remove the rights to privacy that we were once so proud of. The initial law / act may not be that great of an invasion of privacy, but then it gets refined and becomes more evasive. If you give them an inch they'll take a mile, and the proposed system (Interception Modernisation Programme) does nothing other than invade the privacy of the innocent. Once scope creep kicks in it'll just get worse.
Anyone that really wishes to commit a crime will be able to avoid it leaving them with nothing of apparent use on major crimes. Is it really worth spending billions on an invasive and ultimately useless measure when that money could be invested in more police / investigators / training / healthcare / education / youth facilities (to help avoid young people becoming disillusioned in the first place?). There are any number of measures that would be cheaper and as effective, there's no need to stoop to storing who everyone* is emailing.
*Existing laws grant those that need to the ability to monitor specific people if they have reasonable suspicion. The current system requires everything be monitored and logged so a dodgy, underpaid worker is less likely to try and blackmail people / sell on details etc. A blanket system is just not needed.
Edit: Just to clarify, the intention of the IMP is not to store every email, but rather who the emails are between so that they can connect the dots easier. ISPs store your general web traffic for 6 months I believe. I'm not sure what other protocols IMP is planning to monitor though. Also not sure if it would monitor email traffic heading through the UK.- TomJamesComment
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Yeah, you could walk down the street and see my house. But stopping outside it and taking pictures of it is a totally different story, one that would see most people come out and ask you what the hell your playing at.
Anyway, the reason why this was highlighted is because people are saying that a criminal could use this new Google map thing to zoom in on houses and target houses that look like prime targets to rob. That what the big fuss is about, and why they feel Google should be asking them for there permission to take the pictures first. And why some people to protect there privacy and "safety" have been turning them away from taking pictures of their house.
Do you really want every house thief who uses the net to be able to have a good close-up look at your house to see if it looks like an easy target. I sure wouldn't!
Fear fear fear fear - has crime in parts of the world where this tech has been in for a while increased disproportionately? Besides, would a criminal be stupid enough to leave tracks of what he was about to rob - don't forget ISPs record your every move now and that info is available to law enforcement agencies...Comment
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It's completely legal to take pictures from a public area - so I can go photograph your house right now if I wanted to Google are not doing anything illegal.
Fear fear fear fear - has crime in parts of the world where this tech has been in for a while increased disproportionately? Besides, would a criminal be stupid enough to leave tracks of what he was about to rob - don't forget ISPs record your every move now and that info is available to law enforcement agencies...
“It would be better that the Government recognised that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism: that we live in fear and under a police state.”- TomJamesComment
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It's completely legal to take pictures from a public area - so I can go photograph your house right now if I wanted to Google are not doing anything illegal.
Fear fear fear fear - has crime in parts of the world where this tech has been in for a while increased disproportionately? Besides, would a criminal be stupid enough to leave tracks of what he was about to rob - don't forget ISPs record your every move now and that info is available to law enforcement agencies...
Google are just abusing a law for there own ends.Last edited by MRGTB; Tue 14 Apr '09, 5:47am.Comment
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