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Article: COLUMN: Privacy aside, Street View is fun
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- October 10, 2007
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Diana Samuels
University Wire
10-10-2007
(Daily Northwestern) (U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill. -- I was at work sometime this summer when I found out that Google Street View had documented my hometown of San Diego. First I looked up the downtown office I worked -- alas, they stopped just half a block short of the building where I was sitting at that moment, trying to find a virtual image of my office building instead of doing work.
If Google hadn't driven by my office, there was no way they would have gone all the way to my house, on a tiny side street 40 minutes north of downtown.
But there was my house, with my mom's car out in front! I scrolled down the street trying to find my own car, looking ...