GEO SPATIAL web applications

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Geo Spatial web applications, while turn of the century technology used for a multitude of different purposes such as tracking troops and finding new species, may be violating people's trust and the security of privacy. I am currently not sure how I feel about this. In my potentially future field of criminal justice, and in this day in age for the importance of finding one guilty beyond reasonable doubt, I find these applications fascinating for maybe allowing for evidence to be caught on video by surveilance. However, I personnally have no use for this system, unless I were looking for traveling information, maybe. I highly value privacy, and this seems like a classic way for criminals to stake out a place or person; making it easier to stalk someone, find out the specifics of a neighborhood ect. The informations may be two years old, but most landscapes dont change too drastically over time. I know that our 'freedom' comes with fine print, but in some ways this seems to rival countries in thier efforts to censor everyone. If video can be provided, then I wonder if some spots may also have audio attached? Also what is being hidden to the public of information regarding this system. Just because the feeds they show online are two years old, does anyone have access to the here and now footage? If they did that would be more scary to me than the now system.
In my opinion, it is one thing to give this information to people who will be utilizing geographic information, such as businesses ect. It is quite another to make this information available to the public in such a way that it is so easily accessable (at least not people's private homes)
Below is the terrain of my neighborhood. Fancy my surprise when I looked on google earth and found my backyard; there is a camera right behind my house. I am thankful there is none in the front of my home, but i hardly want anyone to have that great of an image of what my yard looks like. Information given to the wrong people could prove hazardous.


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