canada must be smoking something

frankly, I think we do a pretty shabby job protecting privacy in the United States of America, but the idea that a random picture of someone walking down the street constitutes "personal information" is retarded. Canada, well at least the Canadian privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddardt seems to think that street view, Google's web accessible views of, well, streets, violates Canadian privacy laws.

No word on the reaction of the Globe and Mail to the news that they have to get permission before putting pictures in the paper now. Oh, they don't have to? I don't understand...how is it different? Oh I get it, Google seems like an easy target given they have global brand recognition and aren't actually providing the service in question in Canada.

No comment yet from her office on the US government's monitoring of all of Canada's interweb traffic.