Ok, fine...use Scroogle for searching, and wear a disguise when going anywhere embarassing.

If this continues, it will likely be YEARS between photo-mapping updates....plenty of time for discussion & planning. I'm sorry I'm not as paranoid as you'd have me be, but I don't see this particular venture to be very invasive...ANYONE who wants to do someone harm can take the same drive down the same streets with cameras and take way more sensitive pictures than Google is doing. There are street level pictures of many cities ALREADY posted on the internet where 'you' might have accidently been walking.

here is downtown San Francisco on another site ...with people quite visable. Now what?