privacy implications of street-level photo-augmented maps

[jrtom]

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/30/google_maps_is_spyin.html

Personally I think that the 'robots.txt' proposal is brilliant.

All joking aside, though, there are some serious questions to be asked here about what's appropriate. (And yes, Microsoft has had a prototype with 2 cities out for several months now; no idea what the current status of that project is.)