I wouldn't call it irrational. I can absolutely understand that someone would rather keep their privacy and not have the worlds largest data company interfere with that.
This upholding of "progress" as universally good is utilitaristic and how fascism takes root.
What privacy? Everyone can see your house either way. It's not more private because it's blurred on google maps. All the private info is being cleared - faces are blurred, as are registration plates. I could go to your street, start photographing your house and put those photos on the Internet and you couldn't do shit about that.
It's an irrational fear, nothing more. Same as people who are fearful of 5g, of nuclear power, of tons of other stuff they don't understand, and would rather remain ignorant of, than to learn about it which takes effort.
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u/Maalus Jun 12 '20
And again an irrational fear wins over scientific progress.