StreetView killed Bambi, but it fights crime too

Street View is good - with our growing population, and security needs,
it helps to catch them on a cam. However, I was born in 1947, and though modern and jogging around and with a site of my own, the dominant feeling thru my childhood was that such surveillance of all people, all of the time was a horror! The very famous Bradbury book,
"Fahrenheit 451" (see Wikipedia topic on it) describes it so, and its concepts were talked about with fear and passion at every table in my teens. What we need is a summit by civic and mental health pros, of top wisdom and skills, to help humanity RESOLVE this issue.
If we save a million and some lives with constant surveillance, but
provoke the human group unconscious to the final destruction, where is the virtue and wisdom?

I wrote this comment because I don't have the answer, and we need an answer.

elle fagan

Speed traps caught on Street View!
http://www.trapster.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=261

I hope the field was not part of my next score! God gave it and moronic laws take it away. Again, boo1

Who cares about a Marijuana field in Switzerland? Marijuana ought to be legal, and the only reason that it is not legal in most of the world is because the overbearing zealots in the US Government pressure them and withold assistance and trade from any country that does not complay with their draconian laws

Surveillance techniques like this can indeed be helpful.
The example of the rescue of a kidnapped child is great!

Yet as Elle Fagan points out, there was a time not so long
ago when even the law-abiding worried about the danger
of police who knew too much, too easily. If the police
are universally good, then we have nothing to fear.
But should the government ever start to be oppressive,
then when police know all, it becomes impossible to
throw off the chains of oppression. This is my fear --
that we may be leaving our children with a less-than-
perfect government which is getting worse, and at the
same time, we're leaving them with less ability to
resist a government when the time comes that it must
be resisted.

thomas.

Those who are willing to sacrifice their freedoms to obtain security deserve neither.

The true purpose of government is to serve the people.

An unarmed man can never be truly free, and an armed man can never be truly enslaved.

Human institutions, no matter how lofty and noble their goals, are still formed of humans, and are subject to the same failings as humanity as a whole.

I have many friends who are police officers whom i would trust with my life, but I have an inherant fear and distrust of "the police" and "the government" that I learned early on from the writings of the founding fathers. Personally, not only do I believe that this information should not be readily available to the police, they should in face be required to obtain a warrant to get it the same way they must to tap my telephone.

Hey, if the worlds top athlete M. Phelps can smoke weed and still get all those medals, how can it be that bad?

Evil Google!