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 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. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.