Street View

…most locations on Earth; and Street View, a searchable database of street-level photographs.

…introduced a related mapping service, Street View, that showed street-level photographs from around the United States that were searchable by street address. Some photographs provided a view through house windows or showed persons sunbathing. Google defended the service, saying that the images showed only what people could see if walking…

Google’s Street View photo-mapping service caused privacy concerns when the company disclosed that it had been recording locations and some data from unprotected household wireless networks as it took pictures. The company said that the data had been gathered inadvertently. German officials objected to Google’s actions…

Privacy issues concerning Street View Google’s privacy policies were scrutinized upon launching its Street View function, which provided a 360-degree panoramic view of a given location and allowed a user to virtually “travel” on a street level from one location to the next. The Street View functionality was…