Google street view

Umm. No.

But people who are thinking of committing crimes have been known to be in posession of street level photographs of the area that they intend to commit it in, if you see what I mean.

Thats really funny, I can see a lady walking down the road, and can navigate to see her at all angles - weird!!!

ISWYM.

But if you wanted to plan something awful then surely you could just go there and take photos yourself anyway?

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Depending on the nature of what you want to do, that could be a dangerous activity.

Oh dear, I live a life with far too much optimism and trust in people, clearly ?

My initial reaction was the same as your, R-A. However, thinking about it I can see problems with it. Assuming that some houses are clearly more easy to burgle from the outside than others (no idea which this would be- maybe no alarm, door hidden from view of road, that sort of thing) it does allow burglars to sit and trawl the streets for likely from the warmth of their studies without raising anyone's suspicions.

I would certainly object to the government conducting a similar exercise.

You can see our house, and J's head just over the garden wall