Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

at abortion clinics exposing kids under 16…while I  agree no one wants their faces on the web I am more concerned with how they ended up at the clinic in the first place…

Google Steet View at Swiss abortion clinics

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When you’re a 1,000-pound online advertising gorilla with limitless
financial resources and obscene political clout, you can pretty well do
what you want.

Or you think you can.

And that includes ignoring polite requests,  initially, and then
demands, to cease and desist not only from ordinary people, but also
from entire nations.

Google, or the Great Satan of Mountain View, as Britain’s The
Register calls it, touts its Street View surfer advertising hook as a
’service’.

Gargle SnoopMobiles with panoramic cameras mounted on the top tour
the streets of the world taking pictures of houses and scenes without
bothering to ask if that’s okay with the owners, or the people in them.

In the process, they often get snaps of faces, licence plates on
cars, and all kinds of other information and material which should be
totally private.

These Gargoyle Snoop-O-Rama pictures are then published millions of
times around the world  for everyone with an online account to see.

The company claims its obfuscation techniques effectively prevent most EIEs (embarrassing identification events).

But surely ‘all’ is the only acceptable criterion.

Failure to live up to its claims

Switzerland recently joined the throng of complainants.

It said, and still says, Gargle’s pictures violate privacy laws, “by failing to obscure people’s identities”.

Google promised to sort things but, “Switzerland’s head of federal
data protection has told Google that his country is still not
sufficiently blurry on the Great Satan of Mountain View’s Street View
service, despite the company agreeing to further obscure faces and
number plates,” said The Register, publishing Street View pictures of clearly identifiable vehicle licence plates.

Nowhere is anonymity more highly prized or religiously guarded than
in Switzerland, home to the world’s most secretive institutions.

But ironically, there are few places where examples of Google’s
failure to live up to its claims of identity protection are more
glaringly obvious.

In our post on the Swiss story, we  ran a picture of an elderly gentleman lifted from a Street Vew scene in Berne.

Shouldn’t be too tough to identify him, we thought.

Then frequent p2pnet poster Marc  decided to look a little further
and  while he was surfing, he came across site listing Swiss abortion
clinics whose clients include teens aged 16 and under.

Any chance of these showing up on Google? – he wondered.

But of course.

This is, after all, Google Street View.

And no matter which side of the abortion fence you happen to be
sitting, the last thing you want is to have your face or vehicle
licence number splashed across the World Wide Web.

Below is a montage of 32 miniaturised pix clipped from Google Street
View and even at these very considerably reduced sizes, some of the
people might still be recognizable.

But full size, even though some of the faces are blurred, they’d
still easily be recognizable to anyone who knew them. And there’d be no
trouble at all with the licence plates or locations.

To be safe, we’ve done Google’s job for it,obscuring the faces in red.

You’re welcome, Gargle.