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Angry British Villagers Block Google Street View Car, Incident Caught on CCTV

by Thomas Ricker on April 3, 2009 at 10:45 AM

Look we understand demands for privacy. We just find it ironic that citizens of Broughton (pronunciation: bak-wərd), a small village in a nation where CCTV cameras look, evaluate behavior, and sometimes speak at virtually every intersection, would block a Google Street View car on grounds of invasion of privacy. Seems to us that they've given up on that right a long, long time ago. Though the police were called, the villagers eventually let Google's contractor pass peacefully -- presumably after assurances were given that cameras can not, in fact, steal your soul.

Tags: england, google, great britain, GreatBritain, privacy, street view, StreetView, uk

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Mazda FTW!Apr 3rd 2009 11:32AM

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Great post :)

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crtwmsApr 4th 2009 12:28PM

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Seems to me that there has been no correlation between google street view and crime rates. However I know that now the reaction from this village’s residents has caused their small town to become world news. Good luck trying to fend off would-be-robbers now that you’ve made it well known of your “upscale, well appointed homes”

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