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Subject: [Leica] Friday morning at Zen
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (Philippe Amard)
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:34:02 +0200
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Peter Dzwig wrote:

>Over her (Britain) a village turmed out en masse to turn Google's camera 
>cars
>back. THere have been other similar incidents elsewhere.
>
>For right or wrong there is a lot of concern about Google photographing at
>street level. People feel that there may be an invasion of privacy issue. 
>People
>may not want it known - for whatever reason - that they were on that street
>then. Blurring doesn't always work. You could identify the people outside 
>the
>Zen Cafe without being able to see their faces, by the clothes that they 
>were
>wearing - or Tom at least. It may not be sufficient to blur.
>
>On the other hand we are the most photographed (with CCTV cameras) nation 
>on Earth.
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>
Smile ;-)
Phx


>Peter
>
>Steve Barbour wrote:
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>
>>On Oct 7, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>>
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>>>Google earth/maps now has Streetview up for Vancouver.
>>>
>>>If you enter:
>>>
>>>1659 Yew Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada
>>>
>>>in maps.google.com, and rotate to view the west side of the street
>>>(the building with the little yellow framed wood terrace, that's the
>>>Zen Cafe where Tom Abrahamsson, I and various photographers and
>>>friends have and continue to meet on Friday mornings. Many LUGgers
>>>know the place.
>>>
>>>This street was obviously shot on a Friday morning about 10:30am in
>>>April, because under the cherry tree are seen Tom in his tan vest
>>>fiddling with his pipe, Chris Cameron in dark, myself in a light blue
>>>shirt and one other person who I can't recognize at the moment.
>>>      
>>>
>>fascinating...
>>
>>re Google... The commission has also expressed concern about Google
>>placing images of people on the Internet without their consent. The
>>company said it has developed sophisticated technology to automatically
>>blur faces as well as licence plates on cars. It has also placed simple
>>instructions on its Google Maps website to allow people to ask that
>>specific images be removed.
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>>>-- 
>>>
>>>  *            Henning J. Wulff
>>> /|\      Wulff Photography & Design
>>>/###\   mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com
>>>|[ ]|     http://www.archiphoto.com
>>>
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>>>      
>>>
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