Street View = Legal Action
Privacy concerns continue to dog the exceedingly innovative and increasingly controversial search engine company Google. Up next on the target list of privacy advocates is Google’s Street View. Available now in 27 US cities, "Street View allows users to...view a 360-degree photographic panorama of the buildings, roads and unfortunate passers-by caught in the eye of Google's vans." Each of Google’s Street View vans "has a roof camera, and photos...are stitched together to produce a 360-degree image." Live video footage may eventually be possible.

Meanwhile, Privacy International (PI) is threatening to sue Google if they begin their picture-taking operations in the UK. PI was created to act "as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations." The UK-based NGO with an office in Washington, DC campaigns "across the world to protect people against intrusion by governments and corporations that seek to erode this fragile right. We believe that privacy forms part of the bedrock of freedoms...."