May 7, 2008 5:46 PM PDT
Plastic bag conquers Google Street View
Privacy advocates should take note of an effective way to avert the prying eyes of Google Street View: the lowly plastic bag.
Google Street View foiled by a plastic bag.
(Credit: Google)A block of College Road in Fairbanks, Alaska, along with portions of Minnie St. and Third St. show what a driver would see only if wearing a plastic bag on his or her head. As Google Sightseeing observes, you can tell what it is by the fact that it says "plastic bag" on the inside.
So now perhaps we know which scheming multibillion dollar search engine is behind San Francisco's ban on plastic bags.
Stephen Shankland covers Google, Yahoo, search, online advertising, portals, digital photography, and related subjects. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered servers, supercomputing, open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen.
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When I called them to report the error the guy that answered my call was extremely rude. So I asked to speak to his supervisor. He told me that I had to give him the name of his supervisor to be able to speak to this person. I asked him how I was supposed to know the name of his supervisor and he insisted I give it to him. I told him to stick all things Google where the Sun don't shine and that I was going to go back to Yahoo! and hung up in his ear.
So much for Google's "Do no evil", eh? ?:|