With news that Google have just got that little bit closer to providing users of Google’s Maps and Earth a more detailed than ever view of where we live, I wonder if it’s all such a good thing..

The GeoEye satellite, 423 miles about the Earth, peers down as you’re outside doing the gardening. Little do you know that while you prune your petunias, the large lens of a hi-resolution camera is watching your every move, down to a 50cm resolution. What does that mean to the average person?

This new innovation is great to see - as technology is pushed to it’s limits - but like Jurassic Park, people are so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should. I’m all for getting a better idea of where we live and where we’re going, so we can pinpoint places a little easier, or help us with directions to an unknown area - but isn’t this getting a little too close? If you pointed the telephoto lens of your camera into somebody’s back garden, you would be in court on privacy charges - but it seems as though if you’re looking in from above it’s fair game.