Google’s invasive Street View mobile, a small car that drives along roads worldwide, snapping photos and soaking up wireless data, is coming under increasing hostility. South Korea has recently raided Google’s files. Bloomberg News reports:
South Korean police raided Google Inc.’s Seoul office as part of an investigation into possible breaches of privacy laws resulting from the company’s collection of data for its Street View mapping service.
Law-enforcement officials confiscated materials from Google in a raid today and will ask the company to surrender all data that may have been collected illegally from late last year until May, the Korean National Police Agency said in a statement. Google said it will cooperate with the investigation.
Europe and the United States have made some tepid outrages, too. Germany has made a bold stand (I believe they were the ones who spoke first about this issue).
What do you think? As nifty as Google Street View is, Google should abandon it. I don’t believe Google has good intentions, for one; secondly, the “nifty” aspect of Google Earth should not come at the expense of other countries and the people. People have the right to be safe and secure in their persons and effects. That includes being monitored.
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