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Originally Posted by Bama
Why would it freak you out?
All of the images that I've seen so far were made using a vehicle driving down the street. You'd have to be doing something you'd be worried about someone seeing at the instant the vehicle came by and secondly, it's not capturing anything that someone walking down the street wouldn't be able to see and take a picture of with a camera anyways.
If you don't jerk off on the street corner or in front of a window with the blinds open - I don't see a problem.
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Take a virtual drive around and zoom in on people's homes, backyards, etc. On one pic, I could actually make out the brand of the television in the back of the bedroom on the second story. If you're a burglar, this little tool is perfect... relatively very high quality pictures of thousands of streets without ever having to do any scouting for yourself. Potential employer wants to check if your house looks good enough for his tastes? Ten seconds of searching.
Now add to that the fact that Google is also working on facial recognition software. It stores everything it ever records, and I suspect it could link all its different data quite easily. Which means your myspace profile gets linked to your blog gets linked to your message board posts gets linked to your dating site profile gets linked to random sightings of you on the street, etc.
Googling someone already gives a rather large amount of information. Soon, the average person will be able to find out just about everything possible about you with a few simple searches. Governments and corporations, meanwhile, will be able to get even more information without any of the efforts usually associated with it, making it possible for them to know almost everything about almost everyone in the blink of an eye.