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Street View operatives object to being snapped
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Edinburgh’s Evening News has discovered that, when it comes to personal privacy, Google’s Street View is a strictly one-way thoroughfare.
The paper was alerted yesterday that several examples of the Orwellian spycar fleet were being prepared for action at a disused garage site in Drum Brae South. It duly dispatched a snapper to record the action, but when he “began to capture the teams setting up the roof-mounted cameras, he was threatened with legal action”.
Photographer Ian Georgeson explained: “I was standing on public ground taking photos of the cars when one of the drivers came over and said that they didn’t want us to print their faces. He said if I used any shots of him they would sue us, because they were concerned about reprisals.
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