on the street where you i live
Is anyone else creeped out in the least by the new Amazon search engine?
The home page for A9 is boring and innocent enough — fairly similar to most other search sites out there.
The disturbing stuff comes when you go to their maps feature. It's awfully similar to Google maps on the surface. But in certain cities, A9 gives you not only a map of the location but also a series of photographs of the acutal block. (Pictured below is the corner closest to my apartment.)
I can't articulate why, but it just freaks me out that someone from Amazon drove slowly down my street (apparently pretty recently) taking photos of every address. And what about those poor unknowing pedestrians who ended up caught on film?
Isn't this an invasion of privacy of some sort?
Who knew that Big Brother would start out as an online bookstore.
The home page for A9 is boring and innocent enough — fairly similar to most other search sites out there.
The disturbing stuff comes when you go to their maps feature. It's awfully similar to Google maps on the surface. But in certain cities, A9 gives you not only a map of the location but also a series of photographs of the acutal block. (Pictured below is the corner closest to my apartment.)
I can't articulate why, but it just freaks me out that someone from Amazon drove slowly down my street (apparently pretty recently) taking photos of every address. And what about those poor unknowing pedestrians who ended up caught on film?
Isn't this an invasion of privacy of some sort?
Who knew that Big Brother would start out as an online bookstore.
2 Comments:
OMG - they have pictures of "Downtown" Kirkwood. Scary. I mean, it looks scary. ;)
are you aware that the chelsea neighborhood has the largest concentration of exterior "security" cameras than any other neighborhood in the country? anyway, are the pics supposed to keep me from getting lost?
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