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22 June 2007updated 05 Oct 2023 8:54am

Bad news for burglars

Google's Street View may be smart but it does raise issues of privacy

By Gregory Marler

Recently Google launched a new feature to their online maps called Street View, complete with a typo in the title (see the top of your web browser), and a video on YouTube rather than their own Google Video.

Google Street Maps lets you zoom in on Google Maps, click any road outlined in blue, and see the road at street level in any direction. For now they’ve only driven around five U.S. cities with their vehicle-mounted camera – San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami and New York – but it provides extensive coverage in those locations.

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