[LINK] Google denies Street View has privacy issues

[Adam Todd]

>I think this is quite different to surveillance in pubic places 
>(which doesn't thrill me either).
>
>When friends mentioned to me, that they and their kids were 
>disappointed that the Google Photo of Sydney did not go ahead, I was 
>a bit surprised.
>
>Not being aware of the planned photo, I wondered about the privacy 
>aspects and their enthusiasm.
>
>Check out  little johno and jenny in their backyard at their home...etc. etc.

As some of you know, I use to stream several cameras inside my home 
on the Internet.  I did this for many years, until we had our second 
child and things around the house became more complicated.

I still stream 16 exterior cameras :)  But all the internal ones are 
now strictly limited to the internal server so we can monitor any 
room in the house.   I can of course, using a VPN tunnel and a lot of 
DMZ and firewall punching, get a connection to my server from 
anywhere in the world, but it's not something I do "adhoc" as it 
takes time to set up.

But strangely many people do have web cams running in their homes all 
day every day and you can watch 3 year old Mary and her 5 year old 
brother running around naked.  That worries me in today's world.