Privacy concerns for Google map

Privacy concerns for Google map
There a number of privacy concerns for Google map and they consist of:

• potentially embarrassing or compromising scenes
• women from abusive relationship their where abouts is known by their abusive partner
• stalkers can know the where abouts of the person of interest
• burglars can view the victim's home before going their
• divorces can result from an image of their partner
• contains images that can be of national security such as the Osan Air Force base at South Korea

Google map can capture images of individuals that can be potentially embarrassing or compromising scenes that can lead to women who have left their abusive partner. That their abusive partner can potentially use Google map to locate their location in places such as women's shelter and the results can be very bad. Stalkers and burglars can use it to look at the victims home then make plans how to get into the home. Divorces can result as the Google map images may contains images of their partner leaving someone's home which can be identified as that individual is having an affair. Lastly certain images should not be online for everyone to access such as Osan Air Force base at South Korea and many places that are considered as national security meaning these places are very important to the country's government.
Images:

This image is an example of how clear the image using Google map.

This image is an example of a individual, see how clear the image is and that individual could be identified.

This image is of someones home and stalkers, abusive partners and burglars

This image is of Osan Air Force base at South Korea

References:

1. MSNBC, "Google hits streets, rasies privacy concerns", viewed on 5 May 2010, <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18987058/>.
2. The Daily Mail, "I'd like privacy, Mr Facebook ...not a stalker in my kitchen", 3 May 2010, viewed on 5 May 2010, <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-1270303/LIZ-JONES-Id-like-privacy-Mr-Facebook--stalker-kitchen.html?ito=feeds-newsxml>.
3. Bates.C, "Google map reveals Britain is third in the world for 'Big Brother' requests about its citizens", The Daily Mail, 22 April 2010, viewed on 5 May 2010, <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267687/Googles-new-government-requests-censorship-map-tool-unveiled.html>.
4. Image from Google website <http://maps.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=21670&topic=21676&printable=1>
5. Image of someones home using Google map <http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&q=sydney+australia&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Sydney+New+South+Wales&ll=-33.92434,151.250997&spn=0,0.00283&z=19&layer=c&cbll=-33.924902,151.251018&panoid=SOqKiXwhZVvYaSVYwSY-hg&cbp=12,281.93,,0,-7.6>
6. Bryant.C, Layton.J, Strickland.J, "How Google Earth Works", How stuff works, viewed online 5 May 2010, <http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/google-earth10.htm>.

By: Vanessa