Wär nett wenn da jemand mal drüberschauen könnte ...
The article "South Africans fear Street View will be gift to thieves" reports on the plan to establish Google's Street View service in South Africa. Also with regard to the upcoming football World Cup, Street View will surely become a very helpful and great tool.
But especially in poor areas with a high level of crime, like for example the suburbs of Johannesburg, the access to a huge mass of sensitive data will be misused for criminal purposes, critics claim.
The company Google, which has not met with criticism because of Street View for the first time, now has to cope with the accusation that the detailed photographs enable for example housebreakers or bank robbers to specifically seek out vulnerable objects and to spy out the surrounding areas.
Even a high position authority has apprehended risks that should not be underestimated and has also warned about the great deal of crime.
Though Google's representatives insure that their program does not violate citizens' privacy, they still admitted that the risk of abuse can never be excluded.
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Schoener Text! Darueber haben wir hier erst neulich diskutiert: Street View.Saphire hat geschrieben:Wär nett wenn da jemand mal drüberschauen könnte ...
The article "South Africans fear Street View will be gift to thieves" reports on the plan to establish Google's Street View service in South Africa. Also with regard to the upcoming football World Cup, Street View will surely become a very helpful and great tool.
But especially in poor areas with a high level of crime, like for example the suburbs of Johannesburg, the access to a rather huge mass of sensitive data could be misused for criminal purposes, critics claim.
The company Google, which had to face criticism because of Street View before, now has to cope with the accusation that the detailed photographs enable for example burglars or bank robbers to specifically seek out vulnerable objects and to spy out the surrounding areas.
Even a high position authority has apprehended risks that should not be underestimated and has also warned about the great deal of crime.
Though Google's representatives ensure that their program does not violate citizens' privacy, they still admitted that the risk of abuse can never be excluded.