When has Google Street View gone too far?
You’ve all heard the stories of people offended by Google Street View, having invaded their privacy. The tales are amusing, and always about someone else. These people are shown walking down the street, pissing in their garden, doing something in their home windows, etc.
We recently purchased a lot in cottage country, and too my surprise, the out of the way lake road is on the frickin Street View with images of the lot entrance and lot numbers. It’s not exactly looking in my windows or catching me doing something embarrassing, but I still find it disturbing that our no-longer private country retreat is as open to the Internet as our house in the city.
This is hardly a major violation of privacy, but it is definitely sad, and brings to light how little privacy we all have these days, even simply getting away to the lake for the weekend.
