Its a LOCAL town for LOCAL people

A small village in Buckinghamshire has turned its back on world technology and refused to allow Google to catalog its streets.

Broughton, north of London has recently endured an escalation in crime so when Google came-a knockin', the townsfolk formed a human barricade across the street and stopped them in their tracks.

The villagers called the police and verbally slammed the driver, accusing him of invasion of privacy. A local resident was quoted "My immediate reaction was anger, how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?"

Of course Google played their 'its public property card' followed by 'what law did we break'. They also reminded the public that anyone can remove their house from the service and they blur faces/vehicle number plates for privacy reasons.

So what has this town got to hide? How can NOT showing itself on Google Street assist in their dilemma? I agree that people can NOT want themselves, their family or family home to be photographed and I really don't think they need to justify their reasoning but to claim all this privacy garbage on behalf of the whole town and call the police etc seems way over the line.

Ironically as this has made worldwide news, they will probably get a massive influx of people into the town taking photos and blowing their 'privacy' out of the water. Haven't they heard the expression "Don't hate the player, hate the game!"