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Google Street View Becomes Driveway View
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-04-07
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While one Pittsburgh couple sues Google over its Street View pictures of their residence, another neighboring home found itself the focus of a Google camera car that drove up its driveway.
No word yet on whether Janet and George McKee plan to ask Google for $25,000 for taking pictures of their Pittsburgh home, as Aaron and Christine Boring did in their lawsuit over Google's Street View photography.
The Smoking Gun reported on the series of pictures of the McKee's home, where the driver of the camera car entered the private property. That's a no-no by Google's standards; drivers are supposed to stay on public property.
The Google car traveled up the long driveway, ending up in front of the two-story home's three-car garage. Pictures on The Smoking Gun showed the progress of the car as it left the obvious street for the unpaved gravel of the McKee's homestead.
When The Smoking Gun tipped off Janet McKee as to Google's impromptu visit, she said it was "a little bit creepy to think of someone filming our home without me knowing about it."
It isn't known why the driver of the Street View car chose to stop by the McKee's driveway. Perhaps he or she thought the driveway was some kind of connector road, and upon entering it had no way to turn around until reaching the McKee's house.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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