In the latest battle with Google Street View, angry UK townspeople embraced in a human chain to stop the company car from taking pictures of their residence. This took place in Broughton, a suburb in the northwest part of London. The police arrived after steamed residents blocked the vehicle. The concerns of the residents are that these pictures amount to privacy invasions and even burglaries could result from this technology. The last six weeks had resulted in three break-ins in Broughton, and consequently, the residents are concerned that the burglary trend will rise with this technology.
The Google Street View vehicles are quite recognizable since they have a round camera mounted on the roof. The contentious service is designed to map every street, to show a map from a person’s point of view as opposed to the typical maps that are from a satellite point of view. The technology can be viewed on computers or mobile phones and gives more of a three dimensional idea of what locations look like.
