http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/oh-no-google-took-a-photo-of-my-house/ now with extra source Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:14:46 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/oh-no-google-took-a-photo-of-my-house/#comment-23284 David Sanderson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23284 There is a public street near where I live where one of the residents believes that anyone who does not live in the street has no right to be there. He may be a bit extreme but he does represent a trend where people are trying to privatise public space. The street is a public space and Google is fully entitled to photograph it and present it online. Privacy is a right but it is also a bourgeois obsession that is being taken too far and it is starting to hinder the operation of the public sphere. There is a public street near where I live where one of the residents believes that anyone who does not live in the street has no right to be there. He may be a bit extreme but he does represent a trend where people are trying to privatise public space. The street is a public space and Google is fully entitled to photograph it and present it online. Privacy is a right but it is also a bourgeois obsession that is being taken too far and it is starting to hinder the operation of the public sphere.

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