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As interesting as StreetView is, it's such a colossal privacy invasion, it's absurd. In my neighbourhood, you can literally see in peoples windows, into their living rooms.




And how is this any different from walking down the sidewalk? They're on the road, they're not stuffing cameras into your living room window to try to catch you walking around nekkid or anything. It is literally documenting what public view looks like.

The biggest difference is that you would have to actually travel there and look, rather than scanning the whole city from your recliner.

The difference, as usual with this kind of thing, is scale.



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