Thursday, April 2, 2009

British villagers thwart Google mapping camera car


Alert for suspicious cars after a spate of burglaries, residents of Broughton, Buckinghamshire, zeroed in on a Google Street View car with a 360-degree camera on its roof. Forming a human chain to stop it, they harangued the driver about the “invasion of privacy”, adding that the images that Google planned to put online could be used by burglars.

As police made their way to the stand-off, the Google car yielded to the villagers. For now, Broughton remains off the internet search engine’s mapping service.

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