Getting footage of a Google Street View driver taking a whiz in public, was just one of the many annoyances the hacktivists and stewards of open source technology at F.A.T. have recently launched against the internet search giant in Berlin, Germany. Read more »
While surveilling one of Google’s Street View cars in Berlin, the evil geniuses over at the Free Art and Technology Lab managed to secure some privacy-deluding footage of their own, in this case a driver pulling over and taking a very public piss break. |F.A.T.|
Well this is, ugh, mildly unsettling. In an effort to “build better defenses” for the information it holds about millions of private citizens around the world, Google is partnering with America’s largest and most secretive spy agency. Wait, WHAT?” Read more »
For those of you Mac users who’ve been curious to try out Google’s Chrome web browser, here’s some good news: it’s finally available for your use! The company sent out the following email about an hour ago: Read more »
Happy holidays from Google, which just announced that it is gifting America with free Wi-Fi internet service at 47 major airports during the holiday travel season. A list of the airports involved, which doesn’t include any of the airports servicing the New York City metropolitan area, can be found here. Pricks. |Google|
The revolution will be marginalized. While the concept of dissidents in Iran tweeting news and using the internet as a lifeline is endearing, there’s also those who are exploiting it for truly noble purposes.
Frightened by technology, Sir Paul McCartney has succeeded in removing photos of his London mansion from Google Street View. The Sun reports that McCartney, who has “been careful about security” since Mark David Chapman shot bandmate John Lennon to death in 1980, “was unsettled when he heard Google users could get a 360-degree view.” Now, images of his town house, at 7 Cavendish Avenue, St Johns Wood, London, NW8 9JE, have been blacked out along with a significant portion of the block. Read more »
After complaints that their cameras were snooping over fences, Google Street View is being forced to lower their lenses by 16 inches and reshoot 12 cities in Japan. The new privacy mandate came a day after Greece halted the mapping service and weeks after UK media speculation that a woman filed for divorce after catching her husband cheating with Street View images. |New Launches|
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Back in October, the MTA unveiled its first fully ad-wrapped subway cars for the History Channel and like graffiti in its heyday, the advertising covered both the interior and exterior surfaces. Now Google is getting onboard to promote their newly launched transit maps feature. Unfortunately for the company not so accustomed with the permanency of a printed medium, the directions on the ads are actually wrong. But the good news is their only confusing tourists since most New Yorkers reflexively know that the 1,2, and 3 Trains don’t pass through Grand Central. |NYCtheBlog|
A couple in Pittsburg is suing Google for adding images of their private property to the search engine’s ‘Street View’ map database. But the behemoth claims that all is fair game: “Today’s satellite image technology means that even in today’s desert, complete privacy does not exist.” |InformationWeek|
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