It's perfectly legal to wander around in public places taking photos including over fences. If people don't want to be looked at, they can wear a hijab.
Stephen Conry is creepy. He wants to be the big boss. He think government is our boss. He thinks Google should go fawning around him. He should be fired and told to get a real job more suited to his talents.
<Now Stephen Conroy, Australia's minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, has told a senate committee that Google deliberately decided to collect the private information.
Mr Conroy, whose plan to implement an internet filter in Australia has been strongly criticised by Google, blamed the company's CEO Eric Schmidt.
"I think the approach taken by Mr Schmidt is a bit creepy frankly," Mr Conroy said.
"When it comes to their attitude to their own censorship, their response is simply, 'trust us'. That is what they actually state on their website: 'Trust us'."
Mr Conroy said that the search engine considered itself above government.
"They consider that they are the appropriate people to make the decisions about people's privacy data and that they are perfectly entitled to drive the streets and collect as much private information by photographing over fences and collecting data information," he said. >
Conroy wants to control cyberspace and have a filter to tell me what I can send or receive. That's like having policemen standing on street corners stopping and searching anyone who goes by. No thanks. Conroy is creepy.
When sitting in a public place talking, people who hear the conversation are not invading privacy. If people don't want other people to listen or watch them then they should get a room, as they say.
Taking photographs, listening, recording, including all frequencies, is a perfectly reasonable thing to do in public places.
Freedom is NOT popular among government megalomaniacs or among the public who are generally quite happy to have slaves, so we can expect attacks on Google for having too much money and also because politicians want to be the boss of all they survey.
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