Streetview sleuthing

Nikki Kaye might be right to fear Google’s watchful eye but police in Massachusetts have used streetview to solve the alleged kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl by her grandmother.

A Massachusetts-based officer used the phone company’s GPS records to narrow his search then used Google’s streetview to take a guess at the likely hideout – a hotel, hundreds of kilometres away in Virginia. He notified local police who visited the hotel where they found the girl and her grandmother hiding out.

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    Lewis, generally speaking the writers at the Standard would not be beyond accusing any of the National MP’s Grandmothers of anything.

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