The townsfolk of North Oaks , Minnesota , want to be able to pick their nose , flash cars , conduct drug deals and fall down on the sidewalk without the whole world knowing about it , so they ’ve forbiddenGoogle MapsStreetview cars from crossing city limits . At least those are the only reasons I can think of as to why this quiet community of 4,500 would desire to go all Wuher at Chulum ’s Cantina and ban Google ’s voyeuristical fleet of droid - like camera cars .
North Oaks can get off with this because all the roads in town are privately have , with “ No Trespassing ” signs greeting visitor when they enter ( on the face of it no software are ever drive home to North Oaks — J.L. ) . When city functionary comment their streets on Google Maps Streetview in January , they filed a charge with Google , which immediately took the offending mental image offline . The ikon above is as faithful as you could get to townspeople when using Google to voyage the North Oaks sphere .
This is n’t the first time Google ’s street floor map military service has encountered backfire from miffed privacy advocates . When it establish in 2007 , complaint were filed regarding masses ’s faces and licence plates . Just recently Google start blear the faces of pedestrians who were caught in the vane 2.0 crossfire .
And last calendar month , a Pittsburgh family sued Google when one of its cars drove up the length of their individual driveway and took pictures of their mansion . Who would n’t need that in their community of interests ? [ CNET News ]
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