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Muncie, Indiana Reacts to Google Street View’s Glaze
By Privacy Maven | January 7, 2008
Muncie, Indiana residents are speaking out, as TheStarPress.com notes.
A private person, Cathy Dowd does everything in her power to keep people from finding her information online.
Now, she wants to know how to get the detailed view of her Muncie home taken off Google’s “Street View” mapping function.
“How can I get eliminated from this list? I think if I’m allowed to be on a do-not-call list, I should be allowed to have my house’s picture removed from this site,” she said.
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Ball State University telecommunications professor Dom Caristi said “Street View” is another example of the Internet being used as “an incremental encroachment on people’s privacy.”
“If you just look at this as just a map of your house, it’s not an issue,” Caristi said. “It’s what happens when people have access to this, your property tax information, your salary … all of it off the Internet at their fingertips.”
Gregg Sorg, Muncie, said he usually is a proponent of new technology. “But when I was able to virtually stand in front of my home and pan 360 degrees to see what my neighborhood looked like, it literally gave me chills,” Sorg said of his trial use of Google “Street View.”
The article continues.
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