"A Google Street View Car May Have Run Over A Dog In Chile"

"When your job is to drive a car down every street on the planet, taking photos to create a map of everything on earth, you're probably going to accidentally hit some animals who dart out in front of you."


a dog appears

and then disappears (blurred image)

re-appears hurt by the side of the road

"We (BI) asked Google for comment and we'll update this story if we hear back."

Bloomberg: Google Rebuffed by U.S. High Court on Privacy Lawsuit

"The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Google Inc. (GOOG), leaving the company to face lawsuits accusing it of violating a federal wiretapping law by secretly collecting personal data while developing its Street View maps."

The justices today left intact a federal appeals court ruling that the U.S. Wiretap Act protects the privacy of information on unencrypted in-home Wi-Fi networks.

Google, the world’s most-used Internet search engine, is accused in class-action lawsuits of gathering e-mails, user names and passwords while using a fleet of camera-equipped vehicles that drove around the country to collect images for Street View.

 

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The Daily Dot: Erasing your home from Google Maps is way easier than you think

Art Building and Car Dolly

"Paint Peeling" Google Image Search

 

The remaining paint has been peeling off this second floor (below) for quite some time now. At some point it must have been discovered that leaving it that way was aesthetically pleasing, or whatever. Because Art.

 

Paint Peeling through Noah

What are the chances the building in owned by a fellow named Art? Or maybe the owner, is a woman married to a guy named Art? I'm just looking for Art in the picture.

Here is Google maps drive-by picture of the same building. Paint Peeling for the People.

Paint Peeling captured by Google

Coincidently, back in October 2013, I happened to have walked by the parked Google camera car, that might have taken the picture above, when I decide to take it's picture. I even made a post of it here.


Utility car waiting to peel off

Rest Stop