{"id":1008,"date":"2008-06-09T12:16:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T11:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2008-06-09T12:17:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T11:17:35","slug":"a-private-letter-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/06\/a-private-letter-to-google\/","title":{"rendered":"A private letter to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> chose my home for its seclusion and privacy. You can&#8217;t see in from the public right of way that borders the garden. You can&#8217;t see the slide and swing and trampoline. <\/p>\n<p>No offence, but we don&#8217;t really want you to. Of course, this all shows up on the satellite photo on <strong>Google Maps<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now anyone can fly over my home &#8211; if they have an aircraft lying around. And satellite photos have been around for years. But detailed pictures of my garden with my children&#8217;s play area and the routes of access haven&#8217;t been freely available with the absolute ease that Google now provides.<\/p>\n<p>And given the incremental way in which this development has occurred, when we move seamlessly to real time satellite images, my irrational fears of predatory Google mapping child abductors won&#8217;t seem quite so barmy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chose my home for its seclusion and privacy. You can&#8217;t see in from the public right of way that borders the garden. You can&#8217;t see the slide and swing and trampoline. No offence, but we don&#8217;t really want you to. Of course, this all shows up on the satellite photo on Google Maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}