Street View: Google eavesdropped on open WLANs - that's exactly the problem with Streetview. Not in the pure photos. But in the entire program - the integration of various things in a large-scale scan. The combination with all the databases that Google already has. The merging of various information sources, purely from the geek's perspective as "wow, hey, look at all the stuff we've got, now let's just pull out everything we can". Or put another way: just imagine, the cars didn't belong to Google, but to the state. And the program, the databases and the information gathering frenzy wasn't a company in America, but our state. Would the accumulation of information and data then appeal to you as much as Streetview? If it were the state, at least there would be the appearance of democratic control over this gigantic database.