Google’s Street View cars are combing the streets of Ottawa; this rather unbalanced piece by Robert Sibley in today’s Ottawa Citizen comes across as a jeremiad about the state of privacy in modern life without actually stopping to question whether the view from a public street is, in any reasonable or legal sense, private (of course it isn’t, but it’s much more fun to carry on about privacy and surveillance than deal with pesky facts) or whether there are any benefits from Street View to weigh against the privacy implications. I’ve seen such reporting elsewhere; not here. Via Richard.

Previously: Google Street View Privacy Update: Canada, Sweden and the UK; Google Street View Meets Canadian Privacy Laws.