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January 30, 2005

Local Knowledge Digitized

Egad! A9, the Amazon.Com search engine, has released a Yellow Pages service that features photographs of the buildings that match a given street address. It is increasingly wrong to worry about the government collecting data on you, and hoarding it in the NSA's archives; it is more likely that your most personal data will be placed for all to see on commercial databases hosted in Palo Alto. (It is, however, still permissible to worry about what the government--and corporations, and your ex-wife--will do with this information.)

Posted by Paul Musgrave at January 30, 2005 06:27 PM

Comments

The county assessor's office (and Web site) can already boast of having a picture of my house. It was just a matter of time.

Posted by: CGHill at January 31, 2005 10:21 PM | permalink

 
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