Google does a difficult job. It is a company born for the information Age. "Meanwhile, here's Google, which is using the information it collects to build better services that we eagerly consume because they are useful to us"- Tim O'Relly, CEO of O'Reilly Media. Since it is new, if there is a conflict between providing information and keeping information private, there is no rule to follow. Moreover, it is hard to identify the information, which one is all right for some guy, which one is not.
According to the law in any country, there is no way to disallow any one to take any pictures at public places and uploading it on his/her blog or something. The only reason for people concerning about Google is because it is too popular. Too many people would see it, it if is on Google. And sometimes people don't want to be seen by the whole world, especially when they are just coming out from a "Adult Book Store" or something else; or sometimes being caught by friends saying "Hey, you are on Google". However, most of the people don't care or don't even realize fi they are on Google or not. And, for sure, most of the pictures are just regular ones.
In the fact, Google seems to think more about privacy (e.g. at the year year when the DOJ tried to get access to users’ queries, and Google was the only company out of 30+ that said “no” and went to court about it — and won).
In this case, Google also offers a "help" button on all the street-level photos to provide a link for users to request the removal of an image that is objectionable or clearly identifies a person who doesn't want to be included in the visual tapestry. However, company spokeswoman Victoria Grand said Google has fielded "very few" removal requests so far -Michael Liedtke, Associated Press.
In my opinion, it is not a big deal of those photos, it might be for some one, but they have the choice to tell Google the case.
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