Last week when Google launched its Street View tool for Google Maps, that picture was on display for anyone with an internet connection to see. It has since been taken down after it was flagged by users.
"I'm not too happy about it - I mean, I shouldn't have been there in the state that I was in but I wasn't really thinking there would be someone driving past with a video camera on the roof filming me either," Bill, who spends around 10 months of the year fishing off Darwin, said via satellite phone.
The issue highlights some of the concerns voiced by privacy activists, who say that while Street View is a great tool for armchair explorers, people are not given the choice of whether they or their houses appear on the site.
Honestly, as sympathetic as i am for a mate dying it has nothing to do with Google Street and if you so happen to decide to lay down on the grass for a few hours then any number of people can take as many photos as they want, if privact was wanted then thats what a bed it for.
This reminds me of a friend Ben who got drunk with us in QLD, we lost him, came home in the morning where he told us he woke up in a gutter covered in rice, about 3 kilos worth! Who knows how many people took his photo however we know of one as we found him on a website some months later.
So to the guy who was caught by google, just be thankful it was not any worse, this could have been you!
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