> On Sep 30, 12:37 pm, "Dave L. Renfro" cmich.edu> wrote:
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>> gb6...@yahoo.com" yahoo.com> wrote (in part):

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>>> 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.

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>> 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).

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>> Dave L. Renfro

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> Violates basic constitutional rights.