Update: This image has now been removed by Google. I wonder if Kevin requested that it be removed, or if Google decided to do it themselves?

Staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation Kevin Bankston has been caught by Google’s Street View camera having a cigarette on his way to work – a habit he’s been trying to conceal from his family. Here’s a picture of him for comparison.

In a brilliant case of history repeating itself, it turns out that Kevin was actually previously caught having a sneaky smoke back in 2005, this time by Amazon’s A9 service!

For more Street View sightings, check out our brand new forum, and you can read the full story of Kevin’s misfortune at Wired.

The interest in Google’s new Street View mode has been incredible, and there’s been coverage of it everywhere¹ – meaning that lots of other sites have posted stuff before we did, including:

E.T. spotted in a field – with a laser beam it seems:

A vehicle caught speeding:

A reflection of one of the vans used to capture all of these images:

A guy caught leaving a strip club:

A guy caught going into an adult book store:

A shot of a person who happened to bend over at an unfortunate moment:

The Boing Boing story² of how someone found their cat on Street Views:

…and many others – in fact there’s also been a number of new sites springing up which have begun to collect these Street View locations, including streetviewr.com, LaudonTech, streetviewvoyeur.com, Streetview Notables and there’s a Wired page collecting them too.

Of course here at GSS, we’ll continue to provide you the cream of the crop of Street Views, alongside our regularly scheduled programming!

Thanks to everyone who has submitted one of these sights, and to all the sites who are collecting them.

Here’s a guy taking a pee into a bush in San Francisco!

Although, this all seems strangely familiar…

Just what exactly is this guy up to? Well, I have no idea, but he certainly hasn’t lost his keys…

I wonder how these girls feel about being half naked for all the world to see on Google Street View?

Does anyone know who they are?

Update: I’ve just realised that for most of these Street View sights, you can move down the street a little and change your perspective on things.