Street View People Front Map Google Image Reading

Google has an "impressive" (surprising in a good way) map service called Street View. It lets Internet users type in an address and see photographs taken from the street. This can be helpful when people want to know what a neighborhood looks like, but it has also "raised" (caused; brought up) "concerns" (worries) about "privacy" (people's right to not have their business and secrets shared with others).

The images "captured" (recorded) on Street View are very detailed. People can see which windows are open and which cars are parked in front of a home. Some of the pictures also include the people who were standing in front of - or even inside - the buildings when the Street View cameras "passed by" (drove in front of a building).

Some Street View images have become very popular because they capture unusual sights. One image shows two women "sunbathing" (relaxing in the sunshine to get a tan) in their "bikinis" (two-piece swimsuits) at Stanford University. Another image shows a man climbing the "gate" (fence) in front of an apartment building in San Francisco - "perhaps" (maybe) because he was "locked out" (forgot or lost his key), or perhaps because he was "breaking in" (entering a building without permission).

Some people are worried that Street View "invades their privacy" (takes away their privacy). Google argues that Street View provides only public images, and that anyone can see those same things simply by walking or driving down the street. However, in response to the "controversy" (something people feel strongly about and cannot agree on), Google does allow Street View users to request that an image be removed "due to" (because of) privacy concerns.