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26nov/090

The Nine Eyes of Google Street View [¿Surveillance or Spectacle?]

Two years ago, Google sent out an army of hybrid electric automobiles, each one bearing nine cameras on a single pole. Armed with a GPS and three laser range scanners, this fleet of cars began an endless quest to photograph every highway and byway in the free world.

Consistent with the company’s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” this enormous project, titled Google Street View, was created for the sole purpose of adding a new feature to Google Maps.

Every ten to twenty meters, the nine cameras automatically capture whatever moves through their frame. Computer software stitches the photos together to create panoramic images. To prevent identification of individuals and vehicles, faces and license plates are blurred.

Today, Google Maps provides access to 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic views (from a height of about eight feet) of any street on which a Street View car has traveled. For the most part, those captured in Street View not only tolerate photographic monitoring, but even desire it. Rather than a distrusted invasion of privacy, online surveillance in general has gradually been made ‘friendly’ and transformed into an accepted spectacle. [cont.]

Jon Rafman wrote [August, 2009] an essay
about "Google Images... The Operating System"

a short vídeo about one of my locative-live streaming-[¿sousveillance?] projects:
CityMapping Performance MP @ The Everydayness' Manifesto
[jan-aug, 2006]


TAG: ART & 'NEW' MEDIA

26nov/090

BANDA LARGA E MARCO CIVIL

de lah para cah (um ano jah!) mta coisa mudou (tecnologias, leiloes-anatel, custos/beneficios individuais e/ou coletivos, politicas, surgimento de diversos portais-softwares online para transmissoes ao vivo e interatividade via webcams ao redor do mundo, chegada da tv digital no Brasil… etc etc etc)

aguardamos seus comentarios e dialogos pertinentes aa discussao aqui proposta.

A Secretaria de Assuntos Legislativos do Ministério da Justiça (SAL/MJ), em parceria com a Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (DIREITO RIO), lançou em 29 de outubro de 2009 o projeto para a construção colaborativa de um Marco Regulatório Civil da Internet Brasileira.