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Dean Burris, a former New Yorker now living in California, can revisit his old neighborhood anytime he wants. “You can really just walk down the street.” With Google's latest feature: Street View. “So this is the house I was brought up in. This tree here I planted.”

 

By typing in an address and clicking anywhere highlighted in blue, Dean can even see how times have changed. “Oh, look at that! My mother painted the building and there's no more graffiti <건물 등의 벽에 있는> 낙서 there.” Google photographed the streets of five cities, New York, Miami, Denver, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, with a special 360-degree camera mounted 탑재하다, 갖추다 on a van.

 

The snapshots range from amazingly detailed to boringly mundane 평범한, 실제의. It's a great tool for, say, tourists or home-sick transplants 이주자, but privacy advocate Kevin Bankston says Google is being too invasive. "There are a lot of people on the Web who are, I think, freaked out 흥분하다 by this. They find it kind of icky 불쾌한 and uncomfortable. I don't think that Google’s done anything illegal here, but I do think they've probably done something that's exceptionally 매우 rude."

 

In a statement, Google says it "takes privacy very seriously" and acts "quickly to remove objectionable 이의가 있는 imagery." But some think it's like virtual voyeurism 관음증. “These people assume some level of anonymity 익명 as they were walking about the street, but now that anonymity has been compromised.”

 

Google happened to shoot this group of people in front of the CBS studios and it may not be updated for months or years. But along with more immediate technology like video in cell phones and surveillance 감시 cameras, it's clear we need to re-examine privacy in a whole new way. Daniel Sieberg, CBS News, New York.

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