So, if I were to tell you that someone of interest drives a new, grey Mercedes Benze sedan and lives somewhere in Stratford, Connecticut, you could simply find out where they happen to live (or at least where they parked their car about a year or more ago)? I can tell you they’ve left the second story window open and you could step right in once you climbed up to the front porch overhang.

Can you provide some cites to reports where Google Streetview has been used by a creep, pervert or other criminal to plan their illegal acts?

I’ve used it to check out cities I’m planning to visit (is the hotel in an attractive location? what’s the park like? how walkable is the surrounding area?) or to re-visit places I’ve been years ago (I remember walking down that street, seeing that view, etc).

Never thought of nefarious purposes nor do I really see how it could be used efficiently should I have such thoughts in mind.

On the flip side, appears Streetview does some documented good:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=Google+streetview+crime&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Are you also aware that Google automatically blurs out faces?

What information will these stalkers and creeps get from Streetview that they would not be able to get by, say, driving down your street? That way they’d not only get a better look, but could see that sportscar today and not what it was last year.