[muawiyah]

But that's not what Google is providing. Frankly NO ONE CARES about you or your face. The streetscape might be interesting. Since time immemorial street scapes have been available for people to look at. They are not now nor were they ever private or privileged. In fact, kings typically wanted people to see the power and majesty of their sovereign lord ~ so they'd build a palace for them to see.

We got a couple of people in Switzerland who got caught peeing in a gutter and they didn't like it ~ I say TOUGH!

But if the Swiss government doesn't care to be on the system, fine ~ that's a nasty enough place as it is with its murder parlors and such.

[dfwgator]

For Germany, they blur out any parts that people request. Don’t see why that couldn’t work in the Swiss case.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I doubt that a streetscape painting artist in Switzerland would bother to include the people peeing in the gutter, or at least not in painstaking detail.

Modern technology creates an entirely new capability with new moral issues. Maybe all Google vans should be heralded half a mile in advance with great pageantry of young boys shouting “Google van! Google van!” so nobody can complain he wasn’t warned. I’ve looked up old neighborhoods and wondered if that was a neighbor I once knew who’s been memorialized forever mowing his lawn.

[Chickensoup]

Since time immemorial street scapes have been available for people to look at. They are not now nor were they ever private or privileged. In fact, kings typically wanted people to see the power and majesty of their sovereign lord ~ so they’d build a palace for them to see.

Uhh yes. street scapes have been always been available because I chose to walk down it or go take a picture of it. But it has not been generally available in China or on a criminal’s computer or for an everyday person to plot to bomb. Can you imagine what CW II will look like with Google?