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Southern California On Google Maps, Privacy Concerns Arise
2007-08-07 15:13:24 (160 weeks ago)
Posted By: Intellpuke
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Google Inc. has been watching you, Southern California.

A caravan of cars and trucks mounted with cameras has been driving city streets for months, snapping close-up photographs of homes, shops and public places.

Any people who got in the way became subjects in Google's version of "Candid Camera".

The Internet company late Monday began incorporating street-level photos from Los Angeles, San Diego and some Orange County cities into its Google Maps program. The additions expanded an online service that thrilled some digital-map buffs and freaked out privacy advocates when it launched in May in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York and three other cities.

The photos can help people scout out places they plan to visit. But when Google's camera shutters click, they capture more than buildings.
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