In contrast to the Dutch prostitution system, in Italy the prostitutes can often be seen on Google Street View sitting in their folding chairs while awaiting some passing trade. Although these images have all now been removed, none of them showed any nudity to speak of. In Groningen one woman was even seen showing off an extensive range of sex toys. Of course they couldn’t avoid them all, and they did inadvertently capture several images of prostitutes sitting in their windows. Google anticipated some of this of course they chose to skirt around the edges of Amsterdam’s Red Light District rather than have to remove all of the images later. On our Google Sightseeing Twitter page we’ve been posting Street View sights for nearly a year now, and we’ve seen the occasional poster or painting showing partially clothed women, but the inevitable Topless Street View Sunbather never materialised… that is until last week’s launch of Street View in the UK and the Netherlands, which also brought updates to several European countries that already had partial coverage. Perhaps because of the way US culture operates, we saw violence in the streets – but sexually explicit images never appeared within the US Street View images to any great extent. When Google launched their controversial Street View service in the US, we saw all sort of things that the press were appalled at including our own post of the Google Street Fight that went on to become one of the best known Street View sightings. When we first posted our notorious Topless Sunbather here on Google Sightseeing back in September 2006, half the world seemed to be appalled that a person’s privacy should be invaded in such a way and then posted on the Internet, and the other half wanted higher resolution images.Įvaluating the situation again nearly 3 years later, it seems that only half the people got what they wanted.
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