I was carrying the trash out right as the Google Streetview car drove by. Now there's a picture of everything in my garage on the world wide web.
Welcome to 2015.
Yea, no kidding!
What we are discussing here is the limits of what one has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" to. The law is complex and fact-driven, but generally, anything you allow to be seen by ordinary means from a public vantage point is not something in which you have a "reasonable expectation of privacy."
Google does push the envelope at times. Consider this Google maps shot of the home I grew up in (looking a whole lot crappier than when we lived there). How OK is it to get a picture from a vantage point equivalent to standing on a 15 foot ladder?
