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Making pictures available everywhere is certainly going to create some problems.

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Street View is a feature of Google Maps and Google Earth that provides 360° panoramic street-level views and allows users to view parts of selected cities and their surrounding metropolitan areas at ground level

The service generated controversy when it was found that the photos often displayed individuals on the street and inside buildings. Google was sued earlier this year by a Pennsylvania couple who found pictures of their home on Street View.

Street View is protected from litigation under US laws, although Google allows homeowners to request that photos of their dwellings be taken down from the service.

Google is already working on a new feature that will blur individual faces. This blurring feature is already being tested on a set of street images taken in New York.

According to Google software engineer Andrea Frome:

This effort has been a year in the making. Working at Street View scale is a tough challenge that required state-of-the-art automatic face detection. We continue working hard to improve [the technology] as we roll it out for our existing and future imagery.