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> -----Original Message----- > From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > [log in to unmask] > Sent: 24 April 2009 10:44 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: ICO and Google Street View > > 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. :) Among other things, being shot at by landowners and imprisoned as spies if I remember rightly. Nick Crane's biography of Mercator is a good read Andrew > Ian W > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection > > issues [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pat > Walshe > > Sent: 23 April 2009 15:47 > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: [data-protection] ICO and Google Street View > > > > > > 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 > > > > > Get 50% off Norton Security 2009 - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/security > ________________________________________________________ > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > All archives of messages are stored permanently and are > available to the world wide web community at large at > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html > If you wish to leave this list please send the command > leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] > All user commands can be found at > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm > Any queries about sending or receiving messages please send to the > list owner > [log in to unmask] > Full help Desk - please email [log in to unmask] describing your > needs > To receive these emails in HTML format send the command: > SET data-protection HTML to [log in to unmask] > (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^