Results tagged “privacy”

After receiving numerous complaints in Japan, "where personal privacy is highly valued," according to SF Business Times, Google will reshoot the country's street scenes. It seems that some of the shots in Japan, as in many other countries, looked over fence tops and into private residences. Google now plans to lower the camera, which is affixed to a car that helps capture said scenes, about 16 inches to help ensure less intrusive images. The Mountain View-based company did not say when, exactly, the new images will go live. In related news, Greece's Data Protection Authority (DPA) barred Google from snapping any more images "until the company provides additional privacy safeguards."

Oh, this is rich. Flickr photog extraordinaire The Inadvertent Gardener snapped this shot. While taking a shot of a rain-soaked BART train, she inadvertently (heh) captured an angry man's middle finger. She explains what went down.

U.S. District Judge Morrison England Jr. ruled in favor of keeping proposition 8 donor info public. Anti-gay marriage ilk tried to get a preliminary injunction to hide the identities of those who financially backed prop 8 campaign. Because they are cowards. But today, things were coming up neither roses nor daffodils for those who helped allow discrimination into the California state constitution.

Hey, Bay Area, are you tired of full out Big Brother control taking its sweet time getting here? So are we. In an effort to speed things up, if you have or know of choice live cams pointed at mildly interesting things in SF (extra points for Presidio Terrace and areas of concern), Oakland, Berkeley, or wherever, share them with us. You can let us know in the comments. Please.