Tess Oetter
Abstract
In this essay, I focus on the controversy over privacy regarding Google Street View, a website created in the fall of 2008. I also discuss privacy and its role in technology, enumerating several ways in which privacy policy in these situations should be changed for the better.
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- Puzzling over privacy: sites like Street View must alter policy
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