I think your mention of surveillance cameras is astute, as I would argue are those that argue that TV news crews essentially do the same thing. I suspect the fact that it was a Google van had something to do with the protesting, but a relatively tiny number of people have protested Google and Google has shown they’re more than happy to cooperate with authorities.

As the Canadian Press reported, “Obviously you need to protect privacy, and you need to work with governments and local authorities to make sure that any concerns they may have, you have to answer to them.  And that’s exactly what we’re doing.” (as quoted at http://www.newsy.com/videos/privacy_in_the_age_of_google/)

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Seems to me that there has been no correlation between google street view and crime rates.

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