Monday, August 11, 2008
How Google put Bill's grief on show
But Google's Street View has made a bad situation worse for Bill, from Victoria.
Bill - not his real name - had been drowning his sorrows over the weekend after the Friday funeral of his friend and felt worse for wear when a taxi dropped him off at his mother's home early on Monday February 4.
Feeling ill, he lay on the grass, and fell asleep.
The next thing he knew was being woken up by police in the morning.
He wasn't aware that Google's camera-equipped car had driven by earlier and snapped his picture.
Last week when Google launched its Street View tool for Google Maps, that picture was on display for anyone with an internet connection to see. It has since been taken down after it was flagged by users
Extracted from theage.com.au -
For full article, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/08/11/1218306724273.html
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