The approach taken on this does anyway illustrate differences between
privacy and property.
I seem to recall in the early days of computerisation of the financial
world that much concern was expressed regarding missing fractions, as
they soon added up to very large amounts, which could facilitate fraud,
illustrating some wider risks within the institutions concerned. As a
result a great deal of time was spent getting financial systems in all
their forms exactly right, so everything balanced properly.
Privacy is clearly not in the same street if relatively small risks
for many millions of people do not add up to a larger risk over all.
Which sectors continue to argue that privacy could rightly be taken as
a property right which has a value?
I wonder what sort of paradoxical woes early map makers had to contend
with. :)
Ian W
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> Subject: [data-protection] ICO and Google Street View
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>
> The ICO has just issued a press release asking for common
> sense to prevail over Google
> Street view. David Evans states that " .....putting images
> of people on Google Street View
> is very unlikely to formally breach the Data Protection Act
> ..." adn that removing the
> service would be disproportionate to the "relatively small
> risk of privacy detriment:
>
> Seehttp://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/pressreleases/2009/g
> oogle_streetview_22040
> 9_v2.pdf
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