Google Street View

It looks like Google's Street View is hitting some privacy concerns. It's not often that mapping makes a Drudge Report headline.

You may recall the hoopla six years ago with the Mequon Property Assessment Photos being posted online. (Sorry, but JS Online want's you to pay for archive news items, but here's a couple of preview links to the old articles Link One. Link Two.) Basically, the problem was that some people don't like photos of their house being posted online. (Interesting enough, in other areas of the country property photos are posted online with no objections, must be a social geography thing!)

Has the privacy issue changed since the summer of 2001? (National Security issues have obviously changed since then.) What if this was available now for Milwaukee, Madison or Green Bay?