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Google expanded its horizon on information technology and created Street View. This is to help people find where they are going, but it is somehow accused of "hypocrisy" over its stance on personal privacy.
In court documents defending a lawsuit brought against its Street View mapping tool it has asserted that "complete privacy doesn’t exist." The assertion about privacy came in court papers Google filed in response to a lawsuit from Aaron and Christine Boring. The couple launched their legal action when images of their Pennsylvania home appeared on Street View.
The photo-mapping system uses cars fitted with cameras to catch images of real-world locations that are added to its online maps.
In its court documents Google said: "Today’s satellite-image technology means that even in today’s desert, complete privacy does not exist."
In an effort to turn the tables on Google the NLPC compiled a comprehensive amount of personal information on an unnamed Google executive in less than 30 minutes. It included the licence plates of cars outside the individual’s home, the landscaping company the exec uses and even the name of the next door neighbour’s security company.
The Centre used Google Street View and Google Earth to gather all the necessary information which it released publicly it said to "highlight the invasiveness of these technologies to individual privacy."
