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December 19th, 2008

Are you in agreement? Do you like your privacy? I ask only because a group of Japanese lawyers and professors asked on Friday that Google Inc stop providing detailed street-level images of Japanese cities on the Internet, saying they violated privacy rights.

Actually I’m wondering if indirectly Google is responsible for a great number of break-ins and assaults around the world – I mean everyone is so easy to find these days – and really isn’t all this an encroachment on every man’s right to privacy? We’re all easy to find and for those that are so inclined – are we not also becoming easy pickings?

“We strongly suspect that what Google has been doing deeply violates a basic right that humans have,” Yasuhiko Tajima, a professor of constitutional law at Sophia University in Tokyo, told Reuters by
telephone.

“It is necessary to warn society that an IT giant is openly violating privacy rights, which are important rights that the citizens have, through this service.”

The Campaign Against Surveillance Society, a Japanese civilian group that Tajima heads, wants Google to stop providing its Street View service of Japanese cities and delete all saved images.

There’s something to be said for “those that live quietly and hidden are those that live best” – it doesn’t have to mean we’re all a bunch of bandits or con-artists, simply that those that choose to live without all the American oooohah – just simply can’t be bothered with being in the centre of things, but simply want to live quietly.

Privacy concerns about Google’s service have grown in Japanese media, especially after some people discovered their images on Street View.

Similar concerns have been raised in other parts of the world, including the United States and Europe – yep we’re here too. In one case, a woman was shown sunbathing and in another a man was pictured exiting a strip club in San Francisco.

I mean does the whole internet thing have to be a “big brother” American show? Of course not – come on Google wake up, you are depriving people of their right to privacy and probably violating several international laws while doing it – it’s enough you dictate what’s going on with your advertising, adsense and adwords and …. bla. bla. Please give those that don’t want to be in the centre of things the right to not be forced into a non-privacy environment – instead of Google being the bull in a china shop and taking over the whole internet.

Understanding that some people are skum-bags and that certain rules are inevitable to avoid being conned – but I have to say that I’m in agreement with Japan and their wish to stop this ludicrucy.

Read the full Privacy story here