License, Insurance, Registration & Google ID: Cop Tickets Google StreetView Car
Valleywag reported that the driver of a Google StreetView car was captured on Flickr being ticketed by a police officer. The picture was taken in San Francisco by Damian Spain. I just can’t stop laughing about the “privacy” violation here. StreetView has come under fire for capturing images that some feel invade privacy. Heck, there’s […]
Barry Schwartz on June 17, 2008 at 8:38 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Valleywag reported that the driver of a Google StreetView car was captured on Flickr being ticketed by a police officer. The picture was taken in San Francisco by Damian Spain.
I just can’t stop laughing about the “privacy” violation here. StreetView has come under fire for capturing images that some feel invade privacy. Heck, there’s even an image on Google StreetView of someone getting a traffic ticket. Now someone captures a StreetView car getting ticketed. Wouldn’t it be even funnier if a different StreetView car captured this and placed it on Google Maps?
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.