<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Borrowing from the Australian Privacy Foundation policy on CCTV Surveillance, I think there is a big difference between data collected </font><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">in a systematic manner and data collected in a casual manner</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> which gives rise to privacy concerns that are of a different nature and gravity from institutionalised uses.
</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The data or data fragments that Google may have collected was unintentional - they clearly don't need it to do geo-location - and it would be difficult to associate it with a particular individual or business - like taking a photo in a public place.</font></div>
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