Blog Assignment #2

The post "Google Earth’s Street View: Public Boon or Privacy Invasion?" by Karl Stephan talks about of the issues that Google's street view has brought to our society. Many people are worried about their privacy because they might think that "someone [...] use[s] that information for inimical purposes" (Stephan, 2012). There is a problem because now most of the people have a computer or a smartphone and fortunately many of those  haven't discovered how to use that information. On the other side of the coin, "what Google Earth is trying to do appears to be more benign" (Stephan, 2012) because there are may advantage of those information. for example, if you are going to somewhere in the city, you just check how it the street and the place you are going looks so in that way you don't get lost. Also Google removes the face of people in those photos and/or removing them. So we just have to wait until something happen like every other technology if they succeed or not.

Stephan doesn't feel bothered with Google Earth’s photo cars and because he also says that if he would see one of those cars, he will go to talk to them about the camera's technical details. Reading this post was fun and amazing because I have never thought about it so it made me thought deeply about the effects, the good and bad. Also I'm a big fan of Google Earth's Street View because that's how I don't get lost in New York City. I agree with Stephan's argument that Google has been trying to give us a very helpful tool but also reading this article made me thought that out there, many people would like to use that information a wrong way and we can ask for privacy. I think that the author writes in a blog because on internet you can have many people to see those blogs and those blogs are voices that want to be heard. The blog in general is marvelous because I didn't just read this article but others with interesting things and information about engineerings and I will keep reading it and find more blogs to read because technology is evolving every day and we have to update to the new things that come so we can get knowledge and use it in our professional career.

Source: http://www.engineeringdaily.net/google-earths-street-view-public-boon-or-privacy-invasion/