Times Online: Tech Central:: Why the villagers who sent the Google Street View car packing are NIMBYs gone mad
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Mike Harvey: "the pictures taken by the Street View car are perfectly legal. You cannot stop someone taking a picture of your house from a public street. If you were to try to stop someone and physically restrain them, you could be charged with assault. If I wanted to take a video of you walking down your street, I can. You may not like it but there is nothing you can do about it. That is what TV news crews do all the time to ministers who have been putting in dodgy expenses."