Seems people in the UK aren’t taking to kindly to Google’s new Street View project. CNN.com reports:

Google’s ambitious plan to offer a 3-D street level view of communities across three continents hit a snag when angry residents of a UK village blocked the search engine’s camera car from photographing their homes.

Google of course claims it isn’t breaking any laws:

The spokesman added: “We take privacy very seriously, and we were careful to ensure that all images in our Street View service abide by UK law.”

Now I’m no lawyer but here in Canada my understanding is that you can take pictures as long as a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy isn’t violated. For example, a photo of a house or a person walking down a street is fine, a photo of a person eating dinner through the window of their house is not. I’m not sure I agree with their reasoning that Street View will give thieves easier access to scouting locations… I mean c’mon already!

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Read the full article over at CNN.com.