I would like to preface my comment by saying that I do use and like a number of Google products and services. I also agree with you that privacy must be built into the design of the product from the beginning. However, I have to strongly disagree with you that Google Street View is a good model of privacy.
I was looking at it recently of the old street I lived on and there was my neighbor standing on his lawn beer gut and all with his dog and watering his lawn. Was his face blurry? Sort of, but not really.
An effective privacy policy is not making people find out on their own if Google surveillance vehicles are snapping photos of them, their homes, kids, and dogs in the yard, and what cars they drive.
In my own case, Google for weeks or months incorrectly identified a commercial plumbing business at my home address which required three requests for removal before it was deleted.
Instead of opting out after the fact when you stumble across it by chance, and then going through several requests to delete, when it comes to residential neighborhoods and properties Google needs to come up with a better design of opting in and not opting out.
I would like to preface my comment by saying that I do use and like a number of Google products and services. I also agree with you that privacy must be built into the design of the product from the beginning. However, I have to strongly disagree with you that Google Street View is a good model of privacy.
ReplyDeleteI was looking at it recently of the old street I lived on and there was my neighbor standing on his lawn beer gut and all with his dog and watering his lawn. Was his face blurry? Sort of, but not really.
An effective privacy policy is not making people find out on their own if Google surveillance vehicles are snapping photos of them, their homes, kids, and dogs in the yard, and what cars they drive.
In my own case, Google for weeks or months incorrectly identified a commercial plumbing business at my home address which required three requests for removal before it was deleted.
Instead of opting out after the fact when you stumble across it by chance, and then going through several requests to delete, when it comes to residential neighborhoods and properties Google needs to come up with a better design of opting in and not opting out.