License, Insurance, Registration & Google ID: Cop Tickets Google StreetView Car

By Barry Schwartz

Published: June 17, 2008 at 8:38 am

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

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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