The entire town of North Oaks, Minnesota was recently removed from Google’s Street View feature on the Google Maps website.

Minutes of the City Council’s Jan. 10 meeting indicate that Google sent a driver in a camera-equipped vehicle to record images of the city’s streets last summer, in violation of the city’s trespassing ordinance. Mayor Tom Watson then contacted Google representatives and asked that they remove Street View of North Oaks images from Google Maps.

The article goes on to talk about how users can request that images be removed and about others who have sought to have images removed.

I’m not sure what is upsetting about someone seeing your house from the street, but maybe this is a sign of something good. People are becoming more aware of what other people know about them. By raising their awareness of how they are and are not protected, the average person can begin the process of attaining their preferred level of privacy.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm by Mike Markiewicz and is filed under privacy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.