Google Hits the Streets, Raises Concerns

June 2, 2007 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer Google Hits the Streets, Raises Concerns (AP)

Hewlett-Packard employee Jamie El-Fattal , left, checks out the Google maps program during Google Developer Day 2007 in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, May 31, 2007. The gathering is organized by Google to expose web developers throughout the world to the company's technologies. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

(AP) -- Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.



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