54-year-old Gordon Rayner of Brackendale Parade, Bradford, said Monday that his mountain bike was stolen thanks to Google Street View. After the robbery, Rayner was alerted to a photograph provided by Google's service which shows him standing next to his house in front of an open garage door. Inside the garage, viewers can clearly see his washing machine and a mountain bike that he no longer owns."When you look at the photograph, my face is blacked out, the windows of my house are blacked out, but because the garage door was left open, you can clearly see everything in there," he told The Telegraph. "I would argue that they should have blacked that out. It is just an invitation for any criminal to take what they like."
A Google spokesperson said that Street View has infiltrated 20 countries without any known increase in crime as a result. Apparently images of people and houses are only "rubbed out" by request. "The imagery on Street View is no different to what anyone could readily capture or see by traveling down the street themselves," the spokesperson said.
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