“Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the company’s policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.” And while that may be true of Google, it’s clearly not true of Schmidt, who lately has been happily high stepping across the creepy line like the grand marshal of the Tone-Deaf Technocrat Parade,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD.
“Appearing on CNN’s “Parker Spitzer” program last week, he said that people who don’t like Google’s Street View cars taking pictures of their homes and businesses ‘can just move’ afterward to protect their privacy,” Paczkowski reports. “Ironically, he said this on the very day that Google admitted those cars captured more than just fragments of personal payload data.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Eric T. Mole is one creepy bastage. He’s also living proof that the gulf between book smarts and common sense can be infinite.
It’s pretty obvious he mean you should physically move out of the picture, not pack your belongings and buy another house.
But the implication of the headline is way funnier.
What? How do you move out of the picture after it was taken?
Read the quote – if you don’t like having pictures taken of your home/business, then you can move afterward to protect your privacy.
It’s pretty obvious he mean you should physically move out of the picture, not pack your belongings and buy another house.
But the implication of the headline is way funnier.
Let me step into my time machine so I can “just physically move out of the picture.”
Let me step into my time machine so I can “just physically move out of the picture.”
@MDN Take: HUSH!!!!!
There’s already a Google Books. Are you trying to give Eric the bright idea to create a Google Common Sense?!?!
@MDN Take: HUSH!!!!!
There’s already a Google Books. Are you trying to give Eric the bright idea to create a Google Common Sense?!?!
Fine Eric…..I’ll move. I’m asking $300,000 for my townhouse. You buy it, and I’ll move.
What a dumba$$………….
Fine Eric…..I’ll move. I’m asking $300,000 for my townhouse. You buy it, and I’ll move.
What a dumba$$………….
Actually in the interview, it’s pretty clear that he means “move out of your house”.
Actually in the interview, it’s pretty clear that he means “move out of your house”.
@ ChrissyOne:
Even if that’s the case, it means that he still doesn’t get that people are uncomfortable with having their homes or businesses photographed and uploaded. It doesn’t really have to do much with whether or not they’re actually IN the picture.
@ ChrissyOne:
Even if that’s the case, it means that he still doesn’t get that people are uncomfortable with having their homes or businesses photographed and uploaded. It doesn’t really have to do much with whether or not they’re actually IN the picture.
He apologized for misspeaking, sure sounds like he said to sell and go somewhere else.
There are a lot of abandoned farm houses in Saskatchewan.
Just sayin’.
He apologized for misspeaking, sure sounds like he said to sell and go somewhere else.
There are a lot of abandoned farm houses in Saskatchewan.
Just sayin’.
Move out and then what? Move into another house that’s already been photographed?
Move out and then what? Move into another house that’s already been photographed?
Sensitive fella, ain’t he.
Google needs to buy Facebook and Zynga, consolidate ASSets.
Sensitive fella, ain’t he.
Google needs to buy Facebook and Zynga, consolidate ASSets.
Is there a Street View of his house?
I think we poor common-folk should see what we’re missing.
Is there a Street View of his house?
I think we poor common-folk should see what we’re missing.
Time for someone to search and load up all of Schmidt personal information, including infrared pictures of him taking a shower and using the toilet. Maybe then he’ll get a clue.
Time for someone to search and load up all of Schmidt personal information, including infrared pictures of him taking a shower and using the toilet. Maybe then he’ll get a clue.
@ Jay-Z
I understand that, but the point is it’s legal to take a picture from the street and put it online.
Look, anyone can walk up to your house, take a picture, put it online, and say “ooo look at this picture of your house.”
I’m not sure why this in anything new to anyone. I’m not defending Google here, but I wonder why nobody cares about Zillow, which goes one step further and tells everyone how much the place is worth. There is far more sensitive information about you and your house in the public domain than a picture.
@ Jay-Z
I understand that, but the point is it’s legal to take a picture from the street and put it online.
Look, anyone can walk up to your house, take a picture, put it online, and say “ooo look at this picture of your house.”
I’m not sure why this in anything new to anyone. I’m not defending Google here, but I wonder why nobody cares about Zillow, which goes one step further and tells everyone how much the place is worth. There is far more sensitive information about you and your house in the public domain than a picture.
And no, it’s not clear that he means move out of your house. He says they only drive by exactly once. You can easily physically move out of the picture once. That makes sense.
You can’t see them coming, pack your sh|t, move, and come back after they’re gone. That makes no sense.