Has anyone used it yet? It's pretty cool but kinda weird, I went down my street and could see me in my own garden...

maps.google.com

This was on BBC...

The street-mapping facility launched amid a fanfare of publicity but now the firm has been forced to pull some of the images after complaints.
It is thought the pictures removed contained revealing images of homes, a man entering a London sex shop, people being arrested and a man being sick.

What do you think? Great idea or invasion of privacy?

I'd love to live you life. Siting stuff.

rose or stella?

Pretty much anything that was put in front of me.

I love Twickenham.

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Lookin at mine, it's a bit outdated..

isn't this your drum Chris?

If you are linking to a street view can you do a screen grab. they are getting deleted quicker than it takes stew to curl one out on his desk.

image is no longer available :S

They are trying to close it down already....

A formal complaint about Google's Street View has been sent to the Information Commissioner (ICO).
Drawn up by privacy campaigners, it cites more than 200 reports from members of the public identifiable via the service.
Privacy International wants the ICO to look again at how Street View works.
"The ICO has repeatedly made clear that it believes that in Street View the necessary safeguards are in place to protect people's privacy," said Google.
Privacy International (PI) director Simon Davies said his organisation had filed the complaint given the "clear embarrassment and damage" Street View had caused to many Britons.
He said Street View fell short of the assurances given to the ICO that enabled the system to launch.
"We're asking for the system to be switched off while an investigation is completed," said Mr Davies.
"The Information Commissioner never grasped the gravity of how a benign piece of legislation could affect ordinary lives," he added.
In July 2008, the ICO gave permission for Street View to launch partly because of assurances Google gave about the way it would blur faces and registration plates.

Since Street View launched in the UK on 19 March, PI has been contacted by many people identifiable via the service.
Among them were a woman who had moved house to escape a violent partner but who was recognisable outside her new home on Street View.
Also complaining were two colleagues pictured in an apparently compromising position who suffered embarrassment when the image was circulated at their workplace.

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I reckon it's a bit ott; they are saying it's an invasion of privacy, how can it be an invasion of privacy when the pictures are taken in public places? Duh

expect its gangsta crackheads who dont want there hangouts identified....

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Did anyone else catch this: news.bbc.co.uk?

Angry residents in Milton Keynes blocked the driver of a Google Street View car when he started taking photographs of their homes.

Police were called to Broughton after residents staged the protest, accusing Google of invading their privacy and "facilitating crime".

"I hear you can drive them away with cloves of garlic, but you can only kill them with a stake through the heart" said one villager, pitchfork in hand. OK, so I made this paragraph up...

Amusingly enough, Google Earth has been used to "facilitate crime", as reported recently: independent.co.uk

I suspect the thief would still have found the lead in the end however, with or without the help of Google Earth.



Why does this thread appear to have been posted to the Azerbaijan home page?! Tonight at least, it's pointing here: dontstayin.com rather than to the Ask-TC group...

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