In May 2007, Google added an innovative feature to Google Maps, called Google Street View. Street View offers 360-degree views of addresses from street level. Google cites many possible uses for the technology, such as showing off your home to distant friends and relatives, checking disability accommodations in properties in advance, or previewing potential vacation rentals. Street View is available in most major metropolitan areas in the United States and select countries abroad. As with any project as grand in scope as Street View. Google's new technology has some drawbacks. Google's methodology for collecting all these images was to pay people to drive around in cars with cameras mounted on their roofs. As a result, many of the images show people going about their daily lives, unaware that they are being photographed. This causes some people to worry about their privacy. These fears are unfounded, however, as Google has worked very hard to ease people's concerns. Ultimately, the utility of the service outweighs the privacy concerns of a small group of people. This document outlines the privacy rights of United States citizens regarding Street View, what Google has done to address privacy concerns, and then offers a recommendation as to whether Google has done enough to address these privacy concerns. Google has implemented a number of features to address privacy concerns. public privacy concerns. The company has worked very hard to "anonymize" the available data using face and license plate blurring technologies. This makes it difficult to recognize people or their cars from Street View photos. However, to verify that this blurring technology does its job properly, Google needs to keep the original... in the center of the paper...oogle simply does this on a much larger and more permanent scale. Google has developed technology to blur faces and license plates as well as a "report problem" feature to handle privacy concerns. The usefulness of Google Street View overcomes the small percentage of images that might be offensive or an invasion of privacy, and with a vigilant community monitoring the images, even these can be eliminated over time. Works Cited http://www.google. com/press/streetview/ http://www.google.com/corporatehttp://www.gstreetsightings.comhttp://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/06/street-view-exploring-europes-streets.htmlhttp: //www.spiegel.de/international/germania/0,1518,676616,00.htmlhttp://www.photoattorney.com/2005/09/rights-of-privacy-concerns-for.htmlhttps://ssd. eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacyhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10024294-93.html