Google Street View triggered worldwide legal and public resistance

Evidence

In the US, attorneys general from thirty-eight states launched a probe into Google’s Street View practices. Private citizens filed numerous class-action suits, eight of which were consolidated in the Northern California US District Court. The head of Privacy International said that Google was becoming “Big Brother.” The Electronic Privacy Information Center championed substantial legal resistance in the US against Google’s efforts to avoid repercussions in the wake of the Spy-Fi scandal, and it maintained a detailed and continuously updated online overview of the worldwide outrage, protests, investigations, litigation, and settlements in response to Google Street View and its extraction tactics. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 454

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: German resistance to Street View was widespread enough to force massive opt-out processing — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 467; Every Google service expansion has drawn legal and social opposition — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 439; Google treats public resistance as an obstacle to be managed commercially — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 442 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Overcommercialized attention harvesting provokes strong social backlash #exemplifies (0.75) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 69