A car with this funny looking contraption mounted on top drove past my office building yesterday afternoon. I can only assume that the driver was being paid by someone associated with some mapping software such as Google Maps or a web-based real estate service such as Zillow.
I'm not a particularly paranoid or private person, and I make my living, in part at least, by using the web. I'm used to being visible and "out there," so I only thought briefly about the privacy implications of a guy driving by with enough hardware to record me from four angles, presumably with the date and time of my leaving the office. I thought a little bit about the photos turning up on the web. But only a little bit.
As I pulled out of the parking lot and stopped at a light, I saw the car that had just driven past me in my parking lot. So, I decided to snap the picture above. And in the interest of maintaining transparency and openness, here's the car, with New Hampshire license plate # 247 0788. The driver is pulling onto Linden Street in Wellesley, Massachusetts at 2:04 pm on Friday, October 24th, 2008. The police can cross-check my information against the data from the recently-installed video cameras at the light next to Jimmy's Cafe at 151 Linden Street. Good place to eat, by the way. Not fancy, but I'm partial to the corn and black bean salad.
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