Friday, April 3, 2009

Villagers Attack Street View Car

Times Online today reports:

A spate of burglaries in a Buckinghamshire village had already put residents on the alert for any suspicious vehicles. So when the Google Street View car trundled towards Broughton with a 360-degree camera on its roof, villagers sprang into action. 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.

[Thanks Juha-Matti!]

Villagers Attack Street V ... by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (1+11)

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