Google Does Evil, Gets Away With It

Google Street View vehicles spotted in Ottawa


Several Google Street View vehicles have been spotted cruising the streets of Ottawa. The vehicles are roving through various neighbourhoods in the nation’s capital snapping pictures of streets in order to update the company’s online Google Maps offering.
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A notification, telling Canadians that the Google vehicles would soon be out in Canadian neighbourhoods, was released late last month. It was later revealed that the company had been collecting images for months, and already has a massive database of photographs. Under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) Google must notify the Canadian public that they are undertaking the photographic initiative before they begin.


Yeah , we decided to notify you that we were snapping shots of everyone months *AFTER* the fact, basically only because we got caught red handed and had to 'fess up.

Which is a violation of Canadian Law, which we worry about because buying off politicians is expensive, and a violation of our corporate motto of "Do No Evil" , which we do not worry over, because that's just a motto and it cannot be allowed to stand in the way of a profit.


A spokeswoman for the privacy commissioners office said yesterday that Google is well aware of the office’s concerns.


Yep. We made nice nice with them, they're not going to make trouble for us despite our flagrant violation of Canadian Law. We're american , we're allowed to do that.


As of Tuesday afternoon, the commissioners office had not received any complaints about the roving Street View camera-cars


We've been running cars for months and no one noticed ! How could there possibly be any complaints about something we're sneaking in on the sly ? There might be now , but it's too late, the databases are in America and a Canadian court order to erase them means diddly. We won't do it. We ripped you good ! Ha ha ha !


Once the Street View service is officially launched in Canada, the commissioners office would be forced to launch a full investigation into the Street View service should Canadians complain that Google is violating their right to privacy.


*AFTER* it's been up and running a while, and the damage is done, and thieves broke into your house because they noticed weak basement window on Google Maps and so they got to scope the place out without ever actually going there, then you can run and whine and complain to some worthless Canadian Privacy Agency that has no power to do anything except hold your hand and cry with you and when you're tired tell you to go home they can't do nothing about it.

Google's New Motto. "Do No Evil. Unless it hurts profits."

*EDIT* Does't Google own Blogspot ? Hmm..let me just export my blog before it myseriously gets erased ....