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.