I wonder if it changes the privacy watchdog's minds, now they know the data can be used for good as well as evil. I mean what's the difference between being caught on a CCTV every third lamppost to being caught on mountain-view-cam?

to see what the perpetrators look like !!

Something doesn't schmell right here. He claims he didn't know the two guys who mugged him? Then why (if you follow the Google car along the entire length of the road) was he cycling merrily alongside them for close to 2 minutes (assuming a 20kph speed limit)?

Still, great to see Big Brother finally scoring a kill (or a wrist-slapping at least). Now we just need the service to become real-time, and we'll all be totally safe.

Well this is kind of a weird place, isnt it? On the one hand I am glad this thugs got caught (I just can't abide thuggery), but on the other hand, it does kinda validate the point of privicy advocates, doesnt it?

Then again, do you have a right to privacy on a public street?

I 'GRR' at you, elReg, for upsetting my black-and-white universe!

Paris, because it makes both of our heads hurt

See now - if there were cameras filming our daily lives 24/7, think of all the crime that would be solved.

Sure, it'd be nice to actually *prevent* the murders, rapes, and muggings, but cleaning up after them is the second best option.

You owe me a new keyboard!

BTW, wanna check out my Dutch Oven?

Current european rules mandate a 2 years data retention... or is it 10 years? or 1 century?

Just print them all and deliver them to the police! In trucks...

;)

...steaming pile of grammar-nazi-pavement-cycling-bastards.

"Is it just me...

...or does a "Dutch Mugging" sound like it should be something really dirty?"

You're thinking of a "Dutch Lobster"