Goodbye, Private Idaho

A little car with a tall camera mounted on top was running through the valley’s (Sun Valley) neighborhoods this week. Identified by the Google logo on its door, it zipped here and there like a honeybee headed for clover. The clover for Google is the street view for its online maps. With that view, anyone in the world with a computer, a tablet or smartphone can virtually stand on the street in front of a building and look at it. That building could be a business, an office, a warehouse. Or, your house. This is happening even in our Sun Valley area, a place that inevitably inspires visiting travel writers to use the word “remote” to describe it. Technology is fast turning that word into an anachronism/ Idaho Mountain Express , editorial. More here.

Question: Are you intimidated by fact that anyone in the world can probably Google your address or street now and see a photo of your house and property?