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Google's "Street View"

The reason I am buying thicker curtains.

Posted by Ann Bartow on June 5, 2007 09:42 AM |

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here's the kicker: the problem is not so much that your privacy will be compromised because a one-time static view of your street front will be available. the real problem is that, as I have just discovered (few cities are offered now, so I was trying to look up Siva's place in NYC), to use this, you fall into a routine asking you to install some flash player thing, then you end up somehow accepting 'google toolbar.' that is what will undo your privacy.

Posted by: prowan [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 5, 2007 10:10 AM

Hmmm. I haven't make any effort to use streetwise, and I have been fending off the Google Toolbar for two days. I have protection software that asks me before allowing stuff like that to download, and despite my consistent "no" responses, it keeps trying to get me to agree to accept the Google Toolbar anyway.

Posted by: Ann Bartow [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 5, 2007 12:57 PM

The use of computers instead of live people to harass us into submision or mistake is the way of new age marketing. It must work well and be very profitable for some. There ought to be a law! :>(

Posted by: bobc [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 5, 2007 07:09 PM

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