A streetcar blamed desire

Have you joined Britain's fastest-growing club yet?

It's a fashion thing, but apparently if - like me - you've been snapped by one of Google's StreetView cars, you can consider yourself lucky.

People across the UK have been spotting what Google has been quietly working on - taking pictures at street level in towns and cities across the country. I was pictured in Soho recently, no doubt looking fairly moronic in an early morning attempt to cross the street.

Today SC Magazine raises an interesting point - putting the rest of the privacy debate to one side, what if you get pictured in a compromising position, like the Arsenal fan outside the Emirates photographed by the Spurs fan who leaves the last three letters out of the frame?

What if half the PRs working in central London get pictured outside a peep show premises as they walk innocently with a client through the streets?

What if journalists who said they didn't want an interview because they were at a press event all day are actually snapped popping out for a sarnie across the road from the office?

Google will no doubt say it's not driving the need for this, that it's people who desire the ability to see images at a street level.

At least it might save me the cost of that webcam above the door to our building, so I can see who's sneaking in late.