Does it surprise anyone that a government quango (UK’s Information Comissioner) has declared the use of Google street view is not a problem? It’s not like our present government has any slant towards surveillance and privacy intrusion is it? David Davis was right; there is a slow but certain erosion of freedom in this country.
Google Street View, harmless enough out of context, is merely the thin end of the wedge. How long do you suppose it will be before we’ve moved on to live HD video feeds for street view? 10 years? Less? Do you think that would be harmless too? If the government decided to store the data from all those feeds, would that be OK as well? After all, if you’ve done nothing wrong, why should you have anything to fear?
It’s the ‘boiling frog’ principle. Somewhere there has to be a line. I’d draw it here, others perhaps in a few years time…
