Over at Boing Boing they posted a story of a reader who was concerned that the new Google Map Street View allowed the world to see her home and even her cat sitting in the apartment on the couch.

While the first reaction is “whoa cool!” I think a second one is “Oooh this is gonna be bad.”

It is amazing to think about the ability to find a map to a meeting place and not only be able to see the shapes of the buildings on the map… but to be able to literally zoom in to the street view and look around the area to recognize it later. But I wonder what sort of liabilities this new technology is opening up….

What if your cat was being stalked?

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