Re: OT (I think) privacy issue/Google Street Views

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Fri Dec 19, 2008 Group asks Google to stop map image service

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4BI5A120081219?

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http://tinyurl.com/a3pzog

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> > How can a satellite directly above a given area get a frontal

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> a person's home?

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> > I can see how you can get an aerial shot looking down in

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> backyard -- but how do they get a front view?  wouldn't a camera

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> to be planted directly in front of your home?

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