[LINK] Google StreetView Launched in Oz

[Ivan Trundle]

On 05/08/2008, at 11:35 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> Surely the home-owner agreed for the floor-plan to be put on the net
> for sales reasons?

Yes. This is why the privacy case was stymied.

> Agreed, some people wouldn't be wise to do so, and
> it is advised that people remove expensive personal items from a
> house that is being sold on the net. But that is far different from
> the Google system.

I could walk around parts of Canberra and view the outside of a house  
and tell you what plan they came from (AV Jennings, etc). And with  
very little effort, I can observe - from the street - the size of  
their LCD TV, or where their computer desk is sited. Without too much  
effort, I'm sure that most crooks can find out this kind of  
information already, without resorting to Google Street View.

I spend many lunchtimes at work walking around the local  
neighbourhood: and it surprises me how little Google Street View  
offers compared with what I can see with my own eyes.

iT


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