I know a lot of people hate the invasion of privacy of Google’s Street View. They don’t like the idea of someone driving by filming their neighborhood, or the ease of accessibility of scoping out your property.

On the other hand, here’s a pretty interesting upside of Street View from an article yesterday in Search Engine Land.

Apparently a girl was kidnapped by a family member, and police in Massachusetts tracked the girl via cell phone GPS, and then verified her location and setting via Google Street View.

Very Web 2.0 meets CIS. Nice job, Officer Neale!

Here’s the original article.

KidWithMatches is the personal blog of Pete Eberbach, VP Director of Online Marketing & Technology with St. John + Partners.

Tags: google, gps, privacy, searchengineland, street view, web2.0

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