> gb6...@yahoo.com" yahoo.com> wrote (in part):
>

>> Google's Streetview software now like Orwell watches
>> all streets and allows people to peek into people's
>> home windows. Google says people see what they
>> would if they would go to those streets.

>
> I didn't know much about this so I googled for the
> site. As far as I can tell, it's only in 9 locations
> in the U.S. (and all but 2 are in coastal areas) and
> nowhere outside the U.S. I'd hardly say this is
> "all streets", or even more than a very extremely tiny
> fraction of all streets (even in the U.S.). And even
> if it were all streets in the U.S., if the cameras
> are only confined to street locations, no one is
> going to be able to see into your home window unless
> your house is right up on the street (or pretty close,
> with a very short driveway).
>
> Dave L. Renfro