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Since Wednesday is the frenzy in Quebec. Everywhere on the web, Facebook and Twitter, people wonder if they recognize their home, their apartment on Google street wiew is now available. Is this an infringement on individual freedom?

In Canada, the online application is available in the cities of Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Halifax, Calgary.

When this feature of Google map, which allows you to see a place like if you were there and to recognize, was released, it was controversial. For people thought at first that the images were real-time. What was worrying, let’s face it. Then people were caught in uncomfortable situations: post a video store for adults, urinating (why do it in the street?), Tanning, picking his nose, etc.. The law protects privacy in Canada is very useful.

The images are taken by car with Pascal Forget Google took a photo and several others when strolling the streets of Montreal last spring.

The functionality of Street View is really impressive. With the mouse or keyboard, you can forward, backward (arrows lower back), swing left or right (left-right arrows), up or down to zoom (+ or – keys).

Faces and license plates of vehicles are scrambled by the computer system  — house numbers are not hidden.

Street View is a Google service has experienced the highest growth of use in 2008, said the head research and development of Google, Luc Vincent.

Launched in 2005 as an experiment, Street View only covered five U.S. cities in early 2007. Since the service was implemented in 14 countries.

No income

The service is not yet generating revenue for the Web giant, he said. “The Google model is to first create a unique and useful tool to many people. Once we have this product and we see if it has a good attendance, we will start to think about monetization. This is not our main concern at present. “