With the rise of Google Street View in the past few years, we have begun to question its ethics. Is it an invasion of privacy? Are there some things we wish not to be published on the internet but are anyway? Google Street View has even become a form of photography, now considered in the art world.
On March 12th 2013, Google agreed to pay a fine of $7 million for collecting personal data during recording for its Google Maps Street View feature. Google's mobile vans, in addition to filming "street views," were also collecting emails, medical and finance records, and passwords from unprotected wireless networks as they passed by. As the internet is becoming more and more prominent, have we lost what little privacy we already had?
In the posts following I will be looking into Google Street View as a means of photography. I have already looked at Doug Rickard, who used screenshots of Google Street View in an exhibition at the MOMA. Can you now be considered a Street Photographer even from home?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/googles-street-view-engineer-knew-data-collection-was-questionable/
Arts Technica, Casey Johnson 06/05/12 (Date Accessed 22/03/15)
Arts Technica, Casey Johnson 06/05/12 (Date Accessed 22/03/15)
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