Wait, WE have to tidy-up their invasive pictures then report back to them? Why not the photo-van crew themselves each day after their rounds! Really, is the shot of the inside of a truck really helping direction-seekers get a better grasp on where they are driving? This is peeping-tom mentality guised as help~

Of course, the damage is already done. This woman's ass is all over the Internet.

Actually, Paul, it really is quite helpful, especially getting to places in dense urban areas where you haven't been before, to be able to go and look at the destination or at complicated intersections ahead of time.

Also.... underpants!

"Privacy"? these images are shot on PUBLIC streets ..c'mon now ..

Good, now let's all get out there and report every single image as inappropriate. Get streetview 'off the map'!

Uhhh... Down here in Miami you see that occasionally because that is the way the fashionista clearly wants it. It's a style, low jeans with high thong. I mean, BFD, I see she's got on a thong. Woop-dee-doo. Did Google do a Street View of the beach at Miami Beach? That ought to set off a few OMG alarms.

Do you really think Google gives a crap about your privacy? Their business is completely reliant on telling corporations everything they can about you. Come on people, snap out of it. Google ain't your buddy. The search engine was cool to help but info, but now they're just getting downright Orwellian.

Gooooogle: We're DooooublePlus Gooood! (TM)

People should get over themselves. If you are in public, you are in public! If you don't want to show your g-string to the world, don't wear low-rider jeans. Isn't it obvious?

The 'it's in a public place' argument doesn't stand - you might fall over or your pants might fall down in a public place, but this doesn't give someone the right to plaster a photograph of you all over the Internet.

@pinky

As a matter of fact, US law says that someone does have the right to plaster a photo of you on the Internet, as long as the picture was taken at a place where the subject could not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Since the side of the road is a public place, the girl in the picture had no reasonable expectation of privacy. Of course, for a person to knowingly post such a picture is in really bad taste, but it's within their rights.

Public place YES!
G-Ting YES!
I think d girl should be sued for indecent exposure.

C'MON! This is a terrific tool. Instead of image removal, just blur out the people. Yeah, it's a lot of work, but at least you still have a product.

Google is so 20th century...here is the real 20th century.

3 years from now.....
Everyone will be walking down the street with their miniature, Bluetooth camera lens embedded in their clothing (front and rear), which streams everything it/you see to your WiFi cell phone.
Your WiFi cell phone will store everything on its 1 terabyte hard drive while at the same time streaming this video you see via WiFi to a “tracker network”. The tracker network is a social group of similar people ( by geographical area,interest..etc),numbering from 2 or 3 to tens of thousands in size. All of these tracker networks will include retail facial recognition software that will be 10 times more powerful than anything currently available.
The TrackerNetwork facial software works by taking every face that is inputted into its database and giving it a unique number.
Then the face is identified in two ways.
1. The TrackerNetwork facial software has so many thousands of “hits” on any face over a period of day/weeks it identifies where this person starts his/her day, works, shops etc. It does this all automatically without knowing who the person is.
2. People who belong to the TrackerNetwork input faces and identify them by name.

With the above two, anyone belonging to the TrackerNetwork can track just about anyone by belonging to a network from that city. Just input the name ( or unique ID the TrackerNetwork software assigns to an individual) and the software will either allow you to watch them live or can show you history from as far back as recorded on that individual.

The upside:
Modern Neighbor Hood Watch: Hit and run? captured on numerous cell phones, instantly uploaded to a tracker network and within seconds the car and driver are identified and sent to the police.

You are walking down the street, a drug addict asks you for money and when you refuse, he starts to get violent. Picked up by someone watching from a store, driving by in a car and from the person waiting for the bus ½ a block away. Instantly sent to a tracker network.

The downside:
Anyone can track anyone all the time! You can track: politicians, celebrities, neighbors, spouse......etc.

What I want you to to is to stop listing newspapers like the Steamboat Pilot and the Denver Post that print articles about people and won't delete or correct them when requested.

Actually I think it's an invasion of privacy that my house is shown on a map at all.
I think we need to petition congress to remove all maps paper and digital.
If you want to find my road you should phone me and ask. Although being able to press a bunch of numbers and remotely control electronics in my house freaks me out so we should also get onto them about phone lines. Then I want to discuss these people that keep pushing bits of paper into my house every morning, its really invasive.
Finally every time I go out of my house people can see what I look like, I think this is a gross invasion of my privacy so perhaps we can do something about that too.

Come On! I think this is a great tool. In a way, this picks up where Google Earth left off. I agree with Xoc, if you're in public, you're in public, you will probably get seen doing something, whatever it is, be it on Google Street View, or some random photograph, no to mention the people around it's PUBLIC.. The photos aren't clear enough to see into someone's house, so there's no threat from potential burglars, stalkers or any other such person. Don't squander this quite so quickly, give it a chance

Personally, I feel the issue is much more about the Right of Publicity than the Right to Privacy. The case law on the latter is squishy to say the least, while the former has a long, well established history.

Read more on my blog.

In one of the wealthier neighborhoods in Minnesota the infamous "image no longer available" appears everywhere you click although a month ago one could travel and take a look at some very plush homes.

The Crime is Goggle and 75% of their film & pics with a 360 degree zoom of private property NOT PUBLIC PROPERTY. The public doesn't own my house, cars, ect and then against my wishes publish photos and directions to world wide web.

I agree Sherri. My property sits within 5 feet of the street, and Google's street view shows three sides of my home in stunning detail. Their "service" has now provided crooks with a wonderful method of virtually casing the property. I'd suggest that anyone with privacy or security concerns not only contact Google, via "Street View Help", but also call the government to complain. I talked to a guy in homeland security after discovering that my house had been cased by Google, and though he clarified that HS isn't tasked with these concerns, he was also unaware that this was going on... Without those complaints, nothing is going to get done to stop this behavior. For those of you who don't care, well, that's fine for you. Not for me, and I suspect, not for a whole lot of people who don't realize that Google is allowing criminals to plan robberies from the comfort of their computer chairs.

Well hey this is a great tool to use for a burglar to break in a home! Now you can pick out a window or bush to hide behind at night. What a perfect tool to see where your lights are? Doors? Windows....HMMMM I could plan a great espace route and how to rob a house all on the internet. STREET VIEW SHOULD BE REMOVED BECAUSE OF THIS! BOYCOTT GOOGLE AND STREET VIEW. Now people can see what kind of car you drive and all...? It's a robbery tool.

1984 indeed….What no one seems to understand is that if we accept this privacy invasion it will lead on to eventually video surveillance, because we will grow to accept privacy invasion on all levels, I’m not saying google will be why this will happen I’m saying it’s a factor, it will happen if we let technology like this evolve, street view plus reverse phone look up websites equals chaos.

I personally don’t want this to continue, if you want to try to do something about it sign this petition, If you don’t agree an like street view then just forget this comment an go on living.

http://www.petitiononline.com/sgsv2022/petition.html

It is the perfect robbery and stalker tool. Someone I know was stalked and victimized in Los Angeles, thanks to Google. Someone else I know played a prank on her boyfriend and learned the layout of his condo via Google street views. All I can say is this is the stuff of the Night Stalker or Summer of Sam. Hmmm. Another Spike Lee Joint in the making? Let's get them to stop. Do something!

Being photographed in the street in fine with me.but, I did have a street view picture removed because the car taking pictures was on private property.No harm done.I don`t even care that much that I was photographed.But sometimes you have to act when they don`t regulate themselves.

WOW! Because I have a corner lot home, 3 sides of my home and ALL of my yard are on google for any robber or thief to use as a blueprint. GOOGLE should be asking permission, and it shouldn't be up to me to ask for removal. This "service" leaves you and your family open to crime. A friend of mine was not aware that her home was photographed with her young 5 year old in the driveway. So google should've just put up a poster that said "Attention pedophiles, come to this address!!!" I am hoping that some lawsuits come out of Google Maps. Public streets are 1 thing, PRIVATE PROPERTY is another matter!

While I think that a camera randomly taking pictures in public is not an invasion of privacy, it is shocking that these images are posted for public viewing. It's a fun site to play with right up until a person or license plate shows up in the picture. The notion that faces and license plates are blurred is a joke. I saw a picture of a truck driver staring straight at the camera from five feet. If I knew him, I could have identified him. This crap is to Orwellian, and I would guess that within a few months or years Google will be sued by someone with the financial power to get Street View shut down. Because a picture of my dad's truck is on the site, with the windows down and the back door open, crooks now know exactly what address to go to and either take the truck or the contents. Yes, he should lock it, but does Google need to advertise it?

I think people complaining about Street View are just paranoiacs. Sometimes I think Michael Moore was right about americans just being freaked out about "the big bad world" around them.

1. The pictures are several months old by now so if your dad had the car window rolled down, guess what - it's no longer the case

2. A bulglar can figure out how to get into your house after 2 minutes of looking at it and if he wanted to do that he can just walk down the street. What are you going to do? - Stop people from walking down the street and looking at your house?

3. Most of you people "concerned about privacy" probably have facebook/myspace/etc profiles where you carelessly publish all your personal details, pictures of yourself (and the inside of your house on the background) and give away much more than some rough blurry google map photo.

Get a grip and get on with your life.

i personally think that this street maps things is a complete invasion of privacy as iys shows your house your etc. which if not used correctly can be a forum for criminal activity. it is very inapporitate and extremely intrusive and we the public should have been asked permission before we were put on the internet for all to view.

I do not think google street view changes a thing if you have big bushes in front of your house it makes you a target to get rubbed get rid of them this is not a google problem this is your problem if say oh may neighbor hood is so safe that we do not lock our doors and half of us do not even remember where we put our keys and said what neighborhood i was in guess what would happen !!!!

so you see what a bugler sees change it take away those big bushes bolt that air conditioner to the wall so that they can not push it in this is a simple

unless you think we should walk around like Muslims cause we have a few cameras around

does Google show what type of locks i have does google show if i have any unkeyed locks like a 2x4 across the door or a 4x4 jammed in the corner no they do not do they show what kind of window i have well i have a few lexan windows on my ground so go hit that with a hammer it goes thud they run this has happened a few times and half a dozen of our naghbors got robed 3 times in the past 5 years and it is just the same few neighbors i got robbed once i changed a few things and it never happened again to me they try they fail and cause no harm get over it

poeple are not blind but if they ware half blind does that mean you should be half dumb just because you can

they can still drive down the street nobody should be arrested for making a wrong turn into a so called good safe neighbor hood with a an old rusty pickup poeple who are complaing about this most likely are happy to see such police action because they want to restrict other peoples freedom to cover their own shortcomings

my problem is matter of location i am away from the main street with no foot traffic so unless brick up all the ground floor and basement windows and put in some big and heavy looking fire doors on the front and back some goof ball will still try maybe they found out about this location though Google but removing it from google will not fix it and all it would take with out google is a simple few blog posts or a simple few photos on a myspace with an address this would do the same thing and comes with no way to request to remove it

so if i was looking to case a joint i would use google map it would allow me to see any place i want but if you remove your self from google i would assume you have some big bushes and or a big picture window in the back yard or just sunbathe naked in the back yard by getting your house removed from google you just flagging it as something to look at in person even with out google map buglers could case areas the same way with mayspace and face book it would take a bit longer but time is not in short supply for them

when i am dead at 50 years from now my common sense will live on and poeple will be taking advice from a corpse and some poeple call them selves smart but their children will undoubtedly be taking advice from a corpse or two so lets be honest the majority of poeple who take my advice would refer to me as a corpse as my advice will be valid 200-300 years from now or longer