And I think this is the whole point. Are the laws as they stand written to take into account this new technology, and have we have a collective community had the chance to update them yet? Answer, no!

And posting a picture of our own house on a public forum is fully missing my point. That is your choice to do that, not Google's. The picture of our street are of clear enough quality to pre plan any attempt on illegal entry, spotting weak points in peoples security without ever needing to get close to the house before hand.

This is a difficult and complex issue, one that hasn't really had the opportunity to be debated in public before Google went ahead and did it.

I'll try putting my point another way, as you all seem to have missed it. If you came home and saw someone peering through your front window from the path, what would you do? I for one would go and enquire what they were doing and could I help them with something. Google has removed that opportunity for me to do that, weighting the intrusion of privacy.

Cheers

Cris.