About privacy they said, “. . . no one today has complete privacy. Except, perhaps, hermits.”

To further quote the article:

“Google basically says that it’s up to people to scan Street View themselves, pick out photos that might be private, then notify the company. Staying off of private roads isn’t Google’s problem; it’s the homeowner’s.”

“At every point in its legal response, Google passes off the complaints over Street View as simply too petty too bother with—even as it admits that its driver may, in fact, have driven past a sign marked “private road” to take the photo.”

Is Google concerned about our privacy? According to this article, it sounds as if the only concession they make is to begrudgingly let us remove information if we can discover it ourselves. And they would be the search engine we would use to find that information.

To me, Google is starting to sound a little evil.

My recollection is that companies which provide services online, most notably ISPs, but I think SAS companies might be tied in, are required to keep tracking information so that intellectual “property” “crime” can be tracked down, and if they don’t they are held legally liable for the crime.

The viacom-google “compromise” is still a compromise of the users info, no matter how you look at it, the greeking and “no analysis” clauses are toothless, and powerless against anybody who knows regular expressions.

The moral of the story SAS has an Achilles heal, and it’s stupid laws developed by copy monopolies, and enforced by ignorant judges.

Hold your own data, or it’s not yours.